July casts a magic spell over gardens, so that no matter how neglected or sorry a bit of earth is, it’s sure now to be bursting with poppies and daisies and all kinds of colourful midsummer flowers. I love to see a surprise sunflower shoot up in the borders! As the mad summer growth fills […]
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Gardening Tips: June 2015
This last month has been beautiful – I have enjoyed walks in bluebell woods nearby and admired the Rhododendrons at Stody Lodge Gardens, so many amazing colours and scents and so much promise of the season to come. Summer is finally here, bringing with it warmer temperatures and longer evenings. I have enjoyed watching the […]
Gardening Tips: May 2015
Warmer mornings filled with sunshine are what I’ve been longing for and the chorus of lawn mowers is a reminder that the grass cutting season has begun! Walking out into the garden you can find Paeony flower buds the size of golf balls, bleeding hearts shyly flowering away and the beds and borders springing to […]
Gardening Tips: April 2015
April is a beautiful month and a special one for me as I celebrate my birthday, and of course quite often like this year, there is Easter too! I love Easter not just for the bank holidays and mountains of chocolate to gorge my way through, but there are so many beautiful plants flowering at […]