• winter
  • Gardening Tips: January 2016

    Blue Centaurea

    A mild start to winter has brought talk of daffodils, although I’m sad to say I haven’t seen any flowering locally yet. If you’ve spotted some, I’d love to know! I’ve seen daffodil and tulip bulbs springing up through the earth and grape hyacinths in full flower, beside Pelargoniums and Rudbeckias. I’ve seen trees in […]

  • local gardens
  • Gardening Tips: June 2015

    rose

    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 […]

  • winter
  • Gardening Tips: February 2015

    As I write this there is a velvety blanket of snow laying over the garden and rooftops. It has been an unusual and interesting month – stubborn roses are refusing to go dormant and so I find myself wonderfully having to deadhead roses in January! They are not the only shrubs unusually leafy and groaning […]