Shirley_tulip's Blog archive

The Stumpery

Husband and I just took a four day break away and were pleasantly surprised to find...

Patience rewarded ...

I was given a gardening voucher on my birthday last year (August), then another at...

Making life easier!

That's the plan for this small area at the end of our back garden. It used to be...

Relax for half an hour a day ...

If you feel there just aren't enough gardening programmes on TV, take a look at...

New arrival today.

Remember the bird's nest seen in our Grapevine a few weeks ago ... We have been...

I heard it through the Grapevine.

For a couple of weeks now, through our lounge patio doors, we have seen a female...

Pittosporum pruned today

This Pittosporum tenuifolium had grown too tall for my liking, neighbour had his...

Anyone remember GOY member Mossy?

I recorded BBC Gardener's World last night, just viewed it this afternoon and saw...

Bugs ... good and bad

I was in the garden earlier, before the very welcome rain started falling, and was...

A riverside walk

with some surprises! Yesterday we drove to Littlehampton, about 3 miles from us,...

Such a treat!

Yesterday morning we set off on a twenty minute drive to one of our favourite garden...

This could be the last time ...

that this pretty Ceanothus will look as gorgeous as this. It was planted in May 2013...