Potted romance
I usually stem the urge to post about snowdrops at this time of year …Obviously because it’s been done before a million trillion times, and I don’t want to be boring. But by heck I LOVE snowdrops....
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Happy Valentines x I wanted to share something I’ve been doing over at my Crocus blog – my mossy, irisy knoll in-a-box, which is making me happy today. I love the generosity of this bedside box so much...
View ArticleBy the bed: February posy
Exquisite small things, photographed past their best but none-the-worse for that… Picked by my four-year-old, (with a little help from my mother) Ingredients: Narcissi, crocus, rosemary, pulmonaria,...
View ArticleOn Spring, Perfection, Yanking stuff out, and Dead wood…
Hello – a little post about gardening, and happiness… I’ve been out there with my garden, clearing, weeding, dividing and re-planting and generally yanking stuff out. It’s a new thing, this removal of...
View ArticleSnowdrops and Happiness
Snowdrops, gone over but not forgotten from Laetitia Maklouf on Vimeo. I made a little video…many reasons but mainly because I sit around tapping away at my computer for far longer than I strictly...
View ArticleGo outside and play!
Lovely parcel in the mail the other day. I don’t think that childish thrill of getting a parcel in the post will ever leave me. Brown paper packages and all that… This one was in a jiffy bag, and it...
View ArticleBedside bulbs #2
Daffs and muscari. …started off life like this, (below) back in October…. I put them by the bed, because I am up a lot at night, and, well, they add a bit of cheer to the proceedings.. xxx x
View ArticleA little languid sowing…
I completely forgot to post this little foray with Cobaea scandens...pretty much my fave climber. Thanks to Mr Higgledy (who writes on his blog everything you ever need to know about this plant), I...
View ArticleAgapanthus 101
How to grow Agapanthus My first day off yesterday, in just short of a year, and I got to spend it ogling at pretty flowers with the marvellous Debora who lunches with me irregularly, and shares my...
View ArticleThere are men in my garden…
…they have been busy doing things for a while. First they dug a hole. I’ve noticed that generally, men love to dig holes. Just look at them closely next time you pass some road-works. They have a good...
View ArticleMini lawns, minus the mowing
The weather has turned, and I need to mow, but it’s too wet, so I’m satisfying my need for a tidy sword indoors with some Chamomile (added benefit…it has the most delicious appley smell). Here’s how...
View ArticleChelsea 2014: Highlights
It was hot and sweaty…the kind of weather in which a lady in a corset would swoon. Luckily I was not in my corset yesterday…but I do want to salute the high-heeled brigade; extremely impressive…I am in...
View ArticleA vase of Nigella
Nigella – one of those blooms that makes you feel like a professional photographer…impossible to take a bad photo of it. I have an abundance this year, thanks to my sowing a few plants two years ago,...
View ArticleA gooseberry salsa…(sort-of)
Blogging food recipes has become a bit of a mind-game of late, and I’m fully blaming radio 4′s brilliant comedy ‘In and Out of the Kitchen’, about a food writer, Damien Trench, who lives in Queen’s...
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