One week down, 51 to go - let's hope only a fraction of them are spent in lockdown and we get on top of this devastating virus sooner rather than later. We've got some resolutions for the New Year and aside from plans for the garden we decided to do a 'dry January' - I'm … Continue reading Six on Saturday – Greenhouse Prep

The thing about taking photographs is that when you're stuck for ideas about, well - highlights of a year like 2020, you've got a pictorial journal to remind you. For although 2020 has been really awful on so many levels, today I'm taking a look back through the pictures I've taken and lo and behold, … Continue reading 2020 – Top Gardening Highlights

I didn't intend to be so late today but I'd just uploaded my six photos and started to write when the live news came on and we all found out that the Christmas we were looking forward to was not to be. We had already decided against stretching it to the limit, but we were … Continue reading Six on Saturday – ‘Tis the Saturday before Christmas!

Having been given a tiny bit of freedom (from lockdown) this week, I'm in my parents elegant garden on a cold but sunny morning. I'm sure I got the gardening bug from my mom - she's a plantswoman through and through and the variety of flora still flourishing in her garden on the first Saturday … Continue reading Six on Saturday from an Elegant Garden

What a week! We've experienced a journey out of lockdown and straight into Tier 3, the golf course re-opened but then then shut again due to rain and work continued from home as usual - but at least I am now able to enter my parent's garden to see not just my mom and dad, … Continue reading Fatsia Japonica

Weather-wise, having been mainly dry and mild over the last few days, it's been a perfect gardening week for those of us tackling a clay soil. With no golf at the moment, there's been a greater opportunity to be outside working in the garden - Chris has been hedge cutting and when not at work, … Continue reading Six on a busy Saturday

Over the last few months as I've been out and about in enchanting areas photographing and observing wild flowers, I've been struck not only by the fullness and colour of our wonderful landscape but also by how naturally occurring scenes are more than capable of inspiring a naturalistic garden design. I should stress that I'm … Continue reading Wild Inspiration – Creating a Naturalistic Garden

On looking out of the window first thing this morning, I really wished I'd taken my six pictures yesterday when the weather was quite pleasant! However, after a soaking whilst taking Ollie out for a walk, the rain stopped and the sun came out - so much so that not only did I get a … Continue reading Six on Saturday- it’s definitely Autumn!

In October 2018, I featured Tony and Marie Newton's stunning, award winning and perfectly named garden 'Four Seasons' in a blog written at the height of its Autumn colour. This year, due to Covid 19, the Newtons have not opened their garden - this is usually done through the National Garden Scheme (NGS). However, last … Continue reading Four Seasons Garden

Pruning at peril! Since Chris carried out this major renovation of an elderly apple tree, it has fared well! However, that's not the end of the story, for ten minutes after he put the ladders away, there was a significant earthquake in Wales - the whole house shook! For Becky at the Life of B's … Continue reading Kinda Precarious!