Not much gardening has been done over the last year or so, consequently there is a backlog of things to be done. The weather has ...

Over the past few weeks Sarah, may part time helper, has brought Sky with her. An elderly Jack Russell, a delightful companion who stays close ...

The calendar says it is May, but if you notice the clothes people are wearing you'd think it was February. At least we seem to ...

The demand for plants is far higher than normal. There is a general shortage caused in part by Brexit and partly due to Covid. Importing ...

I hadn't realised how long it's been since I wrote anything here. But in many ways not a lot has changed. The lockdown goes on ...

Yes, I'm at home and grumpy about the cold wet weather which is preventing me from doing anything outside, again. There are days when I ...

How many of you have areas in the garden which are not pleasing? Maybe there are too many self-seeded plants or something has spread too ...

It is my birthday today, the last one before my 70th and this is very hard to come to terms with. For years I have ...

I've probably said before that I will keep doing this work, running the nursery, growing the plants and opening the garden until we have a ...

It's such a long time since I last wrote here mainly due to being exhausted at the end of each day. This is not helped ...

Since last writing at the very beginning of the lockdown I can now get back to this. The long gap is not due to complete ...

How quickly things change. The coronavirus is spreading fast causing some selfish people to panic buy which has left many supermarket shelves empty. Schools closed ...