Rain Poem
Given the somewhat damp weather here this afternoon, I thought this might raise a...
Tulips from Kazakhstan
You may remember back in April I went on a holiday to Kazakhstan, looking for plants...
Bedtime
With heavy rain forecast for tomorrow and possible frosts next week, today was the...
In Praise of Ferns
In our quest for flower and foliage colour, don’t forget nature’s common hue of green....
THIS IS WAR!!!
After two wet growing seasons, I probably have more slugs and snails in the garden...
Waterperry Gardens
These gardens, at the Waterperry College in Oxfordshire, are about forty miles from...
Taming the Ceanothus
I planted a ceanothus at the back of a revamped border last year but it soon became...
