My enchanted window

Delicious window, I love to see my world through you… summer is at your feet, buzzling insets and birds wonder beyond your enchanted sill...This is our bedroom window, it faces south... the roses that have climbed our outside wall have become a nature curtain. Waking up to this every morning is pure bliss. The perfume is intoxicating. Soon they will be climbing into bed with us. Is like sleeping in Wonderland. Oh Mother Nature you wild thing!Have a lovely weekend, ... Read more

Where do Potatoes Come From?

Well, if you are gardening in the UK then the chances are high that you have planted potatoes with a name that begins ... Read more

Harvesting Shallots

I harvested my Shallots a couple of days ago. They had reached the stage where their leaves had flopped over and dried ... Read more

Summer Holiday

The garden is looking very lush and full of colour. We are going away for a week tomorrow so I hope that these ... Read more

Exotic Garden open for National Garden Scheme…

EDP article for Saturday 31st July It doesn’t seem like a year since the garden was last opened for the (NGS) ... Read more

Plantaholic post

I am in love with hollyhocks.  At the height of their magnificence right now,  they appear to peer down at shorties ... Read more

Scarecrow fever…

We know how to have a good time in Yorkshire!Not for us the monotony of the shopping mall and the carousel of ... Read more

Celebrity pin up

WHO?          ANTONY GORMLEY WHY?          Because his installation at White Cube, Mason’s Yard was the ... Read more

Big Butterfly Count

This week its the Big Butterfly Count. I have been worried that i had not seen any brightly coloured Butterflies in ... Read more

making rhubarb chutney

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White Wednesday

Pale white, bright white, creamy white, blue tinted white and especially the old faded white of everything antique. And ... Read more

My Whistlestop Tour

Currently sailing round the UK on the Cunard liner Queen Victoria. Saturday had a wonderful day in Cobh where I met ... Read more

Meet Pearl…

BH promised me that we could get another dog just as soon as I was working closer to home...well on Friday I finished ... Read more

Blooming Beauties

I'm on holiday now from work. I spent three nights working and ended up poorly by the end of them. I am feeling a ... Read more

Hestercombe garden: a lesson in stone

Garden designers like to talk  about hard and soft landscaping.    These two divide roughly into stone and flowers ... Read more

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