This was my first visit to RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I have always wanted to go, but for various reasons, I’d never managed it, so I was very pleased to finally walk through the hallowed gates, which were suitably festooned with seasonal flowers and foliage. This year’s show was always going to be a bit… Read More »
grow your own
An A-Z of Garden Flowers
I have a new tea towel design which has been causing ripples on Twitter! I hope to have this one available in six to seven weeks. It will be printed on the same natural, organic cotton as my other tea towels. I put a photo on Twitter one evening, as it’s interesting to gauge reactions… Read More »
Tea towel delivery
After a bit of delay, my tea towels are back in stock. I took them to my parents’ lovely garden to photograph them. It’s here that I have established a small cutting garden, and over the last few months, I have been planting, weeding and watering. I am growing some of the flowers that inspire… Read More »
A Visit To Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2021
I hadn’t been on a train since February 2020, and I was very excited as I set off for this years RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2021. It was an early start from my house in Lincolnshire, with my bag packed with phone, camera, notebook, sandwiches and flip flops for aching feet on the… Read More »
Open Gardens and Summer Cycling
It is the season of English flowers on our local market and honeysuckle from the garden. Cycling through the lanes (preferably when there’s an England match on, so it’s much quieter than usual). Stopping to pick elderflowers to make cordial and admiring the dog roses in the hedgerows. They are too prickly to pick, and… Read More »
Summer’s here
At last the sun is out again and I have been giving the garden a mini makeover to celebrate. As explained in previous posts, we were due to have an extension, which is now not happening this year, and I had cleared out my courtyard garden in readiness. To avoid having a summer with… Read More »