There are masses of seed pods in the garden at the moment. I particularly like the Love in a Mist ones although the opium poppy heads are pretty lovely too. As I've never grown either of these before  it's a real treat to include them...

26 June, 2014 /

When the Nasturtiums start opening in the garden, for me it really marks the beginning of Summer and also the promise of Autumn...

25 June, 2014 /

I spent the weekend in Cornwall, as we were having a wonderful new bespoke bench delivered by friends; Ewan had made the bench (Holly basically makes most of the beautiful ceramics I own! ). I arrived back to a rather parched garden amidst an overturned row of...

24 June, 2014 /

It's the details in nature that have always completely fascinated me and I am perpetually amazed and grateful at the abundance of beautiful wild plants and creatures, with their extroidinary designs surrounding us.  There is a passage in the preface of this 1930's book 'The Look-About-You...

19 June, 2014 /

Whilst some of the flowers in the garden continue  to flower abundantly, others seem to be coming to the end of a floral burst. The sweet peas are a joy and the pinks are producing loads more flowers this year too, but the Campanula seem to...

19 June, 2014 /

So, driving back from the shops, I see this extroidinary display of wild flowers in a very un-extroidinary part of Brighton...

18 June, 2014 /

Ever since I was really young I’ve had a fascination for grasses. I was always amazed that when just sitting in a park or playground I was surrounded by so many different species and when I was about 6 I asked for The Observers Book of...

17 June, 2014 /

The shed is getting a little tidier now, and also seems to have a lot more space at the moment; we even had supper in there last night for the first time ever. But although The Cheeks looks as if butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth...

13 June, 2014 /

I’ve been tidying the shed over the last couple of days as during May it becomes an installation for the Open House Exhibition, and because this year it was ‘The Shipwreck Shed’ there are lots of old bits of rope hanging around, as well as...

12 June, 2014 /