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I promised to show the garden that I have made here. I’ll start with the back which measures 48′ x 60′, so I haven’t much space. When we came there were several tall conifers and unsightly stumps and misshapen trees … Continue reading →

I can’t believe it is July already, how did that happen? I have spent days trying to remember the name of this unusual bulb. As with so many plants I brought with me when I moved, it had no label … Continue reading →

I bought a Leontopodium alpinum the other day for my gravel garden and burst into the famous song from The Sound of Music as I was planting it. I keep forgetting that I have close neighbours now and I shouldn’t … Continue reading →

For the fabulous big fat bud on my Magnolia sieboldii. I hoped it would be open for today; I have been gloating over this thickening bud for days and now it is just about to pop open and reveal all … Continue reading →

If a gardener doesn’t have beautiful blooms in June then he should be doing something else. In June we have the richest, most opulent flowers of the whole year here in the UK. Nothing that goes before or comes after … Continue reading →

I have rather lost the habit of blogging, particularly as I have been too busy creating a garden the last few months to think about much else. But now it is glorious June and I find that after all my … Continue reading →

Here we are at last in our new home with a new garden which certainly isn’t blooming. It is weird to have to buy flowers as there was never a single moment in the blooming garden when there was nothing … Continue reading →

Big changes are taking place here in the blooming garden and difficult decisions have had to be made. I haven’t blogged for a long time as I haven’t had the heart to write about the garden knowing that we will … Continue reading →

Wonderful warm sunshine has opened the furry buds of Magnolia stellata astonishingly quickly. It is always a worry when the snow white, starry flowers open in March as the first night of frost will turn them brown. But right now … Continue reading →

We’ve had some terrible storms lately but at last spring is really here and the garden is spangled with flowers. I got a little disheartened when we were buffeted by Eunice, or it could have been Franklin or Dudley, they … Continue reading →