Top 10 Christmas present ideas for gardeners

November 27, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

All I want for Christmas this year is more time in the garden. Oh the pleasure that can be found in the idle pottering about of a summer evening, or the power harvesting of an autumn morning after the school run. I revert to childlike status, begging my family for “Just five more minutes” as […]

Fountain fripperies

August 7, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’ve long agreed with William Morris when he said that “…have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” When I say agree, I mean in a theoretical sense of course. The amount of clutter we appear to own boggles the mind. But I digress. Most of what […]

Gift guide: Presents to delight urban gardeners

March 15, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have been perusing the internet a lot lately in pursuit of practical (read: boring) things. And so I thought that today, for a change, I’d share a little wishlist of fun presents that any gardener would enjoy. This has absolutely nothing to do with any birthdays that may, or may not be rapidly approaching. […]

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 […]