Blue skies and Yellow happiness…

It was the last official day of the summer hols today. Oh I know we've still got the weekend, but that doesn't really count - today was our last freebie, before we have to start thinking about uniforms and getting up on time and brushing hair (oops maybe thats just us!) We'd got stuck into boring old chores today when BH put his foot down and said enough was enough - we were off to the beach before the hols were over! It does help that its just up the road!Its easy to forget the pleasures of an afternoon on the sands - but every time we go down the beach I do feel so lucky to have this on our doorstep. No more trips to the Early Learning ... Read more

Plantaholic Post

Rosa x odorata ‘Viridiflora’.  This rose would go well with either pistachio ice-cream or a dark red ... Read more

the sun has got his hat on

hip hip hip hooray! ... Read more

Growing Carnivorous and Insectivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants are not as hard to grow as you might imagine. There are several ways you can grow interesting ... Read more

When is a courgette not a courgette…

When its a stuffed marrow of course! Tonight was round 2 in our 7 days of courgette cuisine and after a day back at ... Read more

How To Make Grape Juice

While on my knicker-making course the other week (I know, weird) I had a great idea what to do with my ripening black ... Read more

Happiness!

My little world sits on a dream come true... A garden!I've been busy dividing perennials, replanting and mending ... Read more

Big is better! Large leaved plants are a must…

Agapanthus africana, Howea forsteriana frond (Kentia palm) and Ipomoea Carolina Bronze EDP article for Saturday Sept ... Read more

Fine and Fantastic Fruiting Fungus

The mushroom we see is the fruiting part of a fungus that distributes the spores of the fungus for its own ... Read more

Il Sacro Bosco. The Garden of Dreams.

Il Sacro Bosco is a wierd and perplexing garden set in a ravine below the town of Bomarzo in the Sabine Hills.  The ... Read more

Firsts on Matron’s Patch

Back in the Spring most of my home grown tomato plants were badly frostbitten when I left them outside overnight. Many ... Read more

Buildings a Go Go…

First of all thankyou for sticking with me whilst I disappeared from blogland for the last week. Citygirl treated us ... Read more

Raspberry Milk

I know this is weird but I have a Raspberry glut. My Autumn Raspberries are producing at such a rate that the three of ... Read more

Garden Fiction on Gardeners and Gardens

‘The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-century Short Fiction About Gardens and Gardeners’ ... Read more

rainy day harvests

Since coming back from our holiday when I’ve been free to garden it’s been raining and when I’m not ... Read more

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