Browsing Tag

gardening

  • Tips for attracting wildlife to your garden

    Tweet We spent most of last weekend in the garden, trying to tackle weeds but also as part of our 30 green days challenge trying to make the garden more attractive to wildlife. Foxes,…

    April 18, 2014
  • Stealing beauty

    Tweet I took this photo of a rose (one of my favourites) in our front garden on Sunday morning; the sky was blue (briefly), the air was crisp, and the rose looked so stunning,…

    January 22, 2014
  • Chelsea Flower Show 2013 – my favourite gardens

    Tweet On Tuesday I went along to the Chelsea Flower Show 2013. I’m ashamed to say that despite the fact that I’m a South West Londoner born and bred, this was my first visit…

    May 23, 2013
  • Send me forget-me-nots

    Tweet Our garden (and patio) is absolutely covered in forget-me-nots right now – I don’t mean plantain (not the banana kind), which have darker blue flowers and big leaves and are actually weeds and…

    May 5, 2013
  • Orchid

    Tweet When my son’s New Zealand grandmother was over a few years ago she was amazed that I was successfully growing orchids. I can’t grow any other kind of house plant, mind you –…

    June 17, 2012
  • My Silent Sunday post becomes a work of art

    Tweet Ages and ages ago I took a photo for Silent Sunday. It was one of those photos where everything just came together at the right time: a flawless rose, a sunny day. Ever…

    May 27, 2012
  • Easter rhododendron

    Tweet This rhododendron started off as purple, but this year, as you can see, it’s gone quite pink. The stamen look like pearls, don’t they?…

    April 8, 2012
  • Just call me Charlie Dimmock

    Tweet Or not, because the truth is I’m very much a Fair Weather Gardener. I like doing a bit of pottering and I don’t mind mowing the lawn, but any thing that feels too…

    September 5, 2011
  • Our backyard

    Tweet I grew up in a house with a huge garden and some of my favourite childhood memories are spending long hot summers playing badminton and tennis, making tents and generally causing mayhem in…

    May 25, 2011