If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll often read in my captions about the latest plans and work in my garden. Before I start writing posts about the plants I grow and the seasonal flower beds I’m creating, I wanted to share with you the ‘before’ scenes and layout of my Algarve garden. It was […]
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Just as we were expecting spring to arrive here in West Sussex winter descended upon us. Throughout the winter months I had hoped for some snow and then it finally turned up at the end of February and again in March. The snow storm known as the ‘Beast from the East’ meant we had that
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I’m lucky as we have a winter garden. It’s my winter therapy to see that there are some plants growing and flourishing in the winter months. Not surprisingly inside our house and in a sheltered area of my side garden I have lots of potted bulbs. I also have vases filled with tree twigs in
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It’s September but we still have rosebuds. We also have clay soil which roses love – thus still so many buds. Plus mini heatwaves with bouts of rain which has meant happy roses and vases filled with them inside the house. This week I cut a bud off each climber and shrub still blooming then put
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My June garden is filled with roses – and raindrops. They’re climbing up frames, across a pergola and hugging every part of our wood deck. The non stop rain is getting too much for them. Every day I’m filling more vases with roses which means the inside of the house smells as sweet as the outdoors.
I live in a rural valley in the middle of ancient woodlands in West Sussex. Our garden and the fields in this valley are lined with hedgerows and a home to wildlife. But it wasn’t always so. When I was in London I noticed the signs of spring because I always had a garden. We
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