We've had some fantastic non gardening related news this week - our daughter and her husband are expecting their first baby, our first grandchild. So exciting - we've quite a wait of course as the baby is due at the beginning of April 2022. Back to all things plants and gardens, apart from ordering tulip … Continue reading Six on a Wet & Windy Saturday

No posts for a few months and then two come along together! Having a week off work in lovely sunshine has been great and given me time to re-charge my garden writing and make plans for bulb planting season. Looking back at my last Six on Saturday, I can see that the foot injury I … Continue reading Six on Saturday

Gosh, it's been ages since I added a post to my blog - and so it's time to put this right and what better way than by sharing our experience of the gardens at Aberglasney, a historic garden set in Wales's Tywi valley. The garden has undergone a magnificent restoration over the last 30 years … Continue reading Aberglasney House & Gardens

It's been a few weeks since I've blogged, as gardening and taking photographs presented quite a challenge whilst in a moon boot and dependant on crutches! They're history now thankfully, but it's not all plain sailing - I've found that it's surprisingly difficult to walk properly after the period of inactivity! Fortunately Chris has enjoyed … Continue reading Six on Saturday – back on track!

I can't believe it's 5 weeks since I last posted a blog - doesn't time fly! I started building a website in March and was busy at work, but not much else has occupied me during the last two weeks as I unfortunately fell over the lawnmower and broke the fifth metatarsal bone in my … Continue reading Six on Saturday – Daffs & More

With this week delivering more than a glimmer of hope for spring and summer after a long and dark winter, the sun has also been shining on us over the last few days - my mood is certainly lifting! Taking full advantage this morning, I was up early and in Walsall Arboretum enjoying the visual … Continue reading Six on Saturday – Simply Crocus

It's been a few weeks since I've posted, given the current circumstances it's amazing how time still seems to fly. So far this year I've had a big birthday, been extra busy at work (still from the home office), bought a wide selection of seeds and had a laptop drama - it crashed as I … Continue reading Six on Saturday – hellebores and co…..

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!