Front gardens are for the birds (and the bees…)

February 17, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

I don’t blog much about my front garden, although I have replanted it recently (more details soon) but today I was able to snatch a couple of minutes for a quick project where the GarlicBaby agreed to play in his travel cot. The Scandis have some very good ideas, chief amongst them swaddling a baby […]

Gardening book review: Adam the Gardener, a pictorial guide to each week’s work by Cyril Cowell & Morley Adams

February 9, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had lots of books. So much so that my mother, when I was about 10, actually went to our local library to put a limit on the number that I could borrow at once. Mr Garlic and I have agreed that whilst we won’t spoil the […]

Horticultural day out: Hampton Court Palace (including kitchen garden!) review

February 4, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

List of foodstuffs planted in the kitchen garden My husband and I try to ensure that we have a family day out every weekend. It’s usually to somewhere within 90 minutes drive of our home in South West London because the GarlicBaby tends to get a bit squeaky on long car journeys, and we go […]

Snow joke when the weather confuses your plants

February 3, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

First it was my poor Brown Turkey fig tree, getting completely confused because I brought it into my warm dining room. Now it’s my poor garlic. Stupid weather. There’s a lot of pity in me for my poor garden. My garlic, dutifully planted on the shortest day of last year so that it could have […]