Trying to keep on top of all the March jobs
March always seems to be the point when the garden suddenly starts asking a lot from you all at once. There’s still winter tidying to finish,…
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Chelsea week, sweet rocket and a full patio
Late May is always the point where the patio starts feeling like a proper room again.
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The last tulips and only two decent ranunculus
Tulip season is nearly finished here now and I am clinging on to the last good flowers for as long as I can.
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Trying to enjoy every last tulip
I always tell myself I will enjoy tulip season calmly, and every year I end up trying to stretch it out for as long as possible.
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The pink tent is back
The pink tent is back for the Easter holidays, which is obviously how I measure the progress of spring.
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An hour in the garden after work still counts
I got home at six, managed an hour outside, and by the time I was pruning hydrangeas I had my headtorch on.
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Mulch, sweet peas and spring pots everywhere
This was the point where March suddenly started looking properly busy.
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A bit of sunshine and suddenly it feels like spring
A run of brighter days at the end of February has completely changed the mood in the garden.
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First sweet peas and that mid-May feeling
Mid-May is such a lovely point in the gardening year because all the firsts start happening at once. The first sweet peas, the first cornflowers, the first proper armfuls that make you think yes, here we go.
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Mud, dahlias and finally getting the furniture out
Early May has arrived with all the promise of the season and quite a lot of mud. We had a proper thunderstorm here and the ground was so claggy I did question my timing on planting out dahlias, but in they went.
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