August is such a strange month in the garden: it’s got half a foot in Summer and half a foot in Autumn. Having had May, June and July where everything goes mad, there has been a definite slowing down. I always think of August as the...
On Tuesday, during our hedgerow car meanderings, I also collected a selection of wild flowers...
We were looking for milk thistles today ( there’ll be more about that in a couple of weeks...
I’ve been working on some table projects today, but basically there’s been no gardening as it’s been so wet and windy in Brighton...
I tend to get up very early; wash up, put the washing in, hang the washing out, clean the kitchen etc etc. At 05:30 I can do all this stuff when the world is still quiet and calm and feel that I can properly start...
In Cornwall last week I decided that it was about time we actually visited the gardens on St Michael’s Mount...
After a really great trip away in Cornwall, I was also pleased to get back home to my garden here in Brighton...
There is definitely something medative ( if not a bit obsessive ) about my flower arranging ritual...
So basically I should be packing the car now, but I’ve got a bit of a pink thing going on at the moment...