Amsterdam's Blog archive

No charity plant sale

This year I managed to convince 7 other gardening friends in the village to open...

Lots of busy insects

As I'm sat by the back door next to my perennial border I'm amazed by the amount...

How garden trends change over time …..

I was just thinking as I embrace the white clover spreading in my lawn & watching...

Charity plant sale tmrow

I'm getting g ready for my annual charity plant sale in aid of Shropshire Mental...

Plants I've lost this year.....

So I have totted up the plants I've lost after various cold snaps this past winter....

My garden

Hi there. I realised looking back at my photo’s I’ve never written a blog showing...

Soil improver disaster

I ordered a cubic metre of soil improver to go on my back border before planting...

Before and after back border

Thought I’d share my back border mid through transformation. My neighbours have never...

Dierama ‘Pink Rocket’

I finally managed (after two years) to get this Dierama to flower! I had seen them...

The Queen’s Green Canopy

I picked up my free wild cherry tree, Prunus Avium’ as part of the Queen’s Green...

Merry Christmas to you fellow gardeners!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful gardening year for 2022!

Laurel hedge gone…..

Finally got the courage to take massive laurel hedge down. It had been well pruned...