Category: gardening
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In the garden: seeking advice

I talked before about creating a heritage garden filled with flowers that remind us of loved ones. Sue, Gavin’s mum knows her stuff. We needed a few things fixing in the house so Rosco is helping us inside whilst we were gardening outside. Rosco helped my clematis by adding new pegs and wire, it is…
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Easter weekend plans: home and garden updates

When I sit down to write, I try and do some different each time. I have come to realise that I am being too hard on myself. Not a lot is happening at the moment so I need to just focus on what I am up to and how everything is going. A bit like…
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The weather is wonderful

Let’s go outside and enjoy it shall we! This weekend I will be pulling up weeds, raking our lawn. Planting my 150 bulbs I purchased in a mad gardening haze. Watering our thirsty plants…. ordering a green bin collection for them to take away all our branches and pruning. But best of all. I will…
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Growing my own Pussywillow trees

Like most of us still stuck at home during lockdown I am falling back in love with my home and especially my garden. Are you in the same boat? I bought some willow branches, I popped them in water and to my surprise they started growing roots. I was instantly fascinated and have now researched…
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Creating a heritage garden

I am so lucky that we have a little garden. It has decking that needs repaired and painting. A table and chairs that needs sanding and painting. And two long beds that house are bigger plants. Gavin’s mum is a bit of a plant whiz! She can name most plants and when she digs something…
