We are now a day away from the visit by the Hordle Gardening Club which the lovely Jan has organised, followed by opening for the NGS on the 8th and 9th June. The pace is picking up and there is much that is still left undone! My super helpers have b…
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Spring is now most definitely here. Sarah has been out in the garden photographing and videoing just some of the song and ferocious activity afoot as the birds sing and plan for a new season, new nests and new young. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z…
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2 weeks ago, Ghillie and I picked up our NGS pack from the amazing Elizabeth, who is in charge of us, and saw her immaculate garden at Willows… Oh dear! Another reminder that there is SO MUCH TO DO. In the package are all sorts of signs to the garden…
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March has been a breezy month and mostly wet, but warm. Sarah took these fantastic shots showing spring flowers in abundance. If you look very carefully you can see them bending in around 40 knots of breeze. Many flowers, particularly camellia, have…
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February is such a trying month… Far enough away from Christmas to be boring with the cold and wet upon us and not enough light to make a massive difference. January has the advantage of being an exciting start to a new year. February is simply what…
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You know that you have become a compost bore when your family gives you a book about compost for Christmas! Worse than that, instead of the polite thank you whilst thinking what worthy individual you can give such a present to, you sneak away mid-fes…
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The plan of the garden is one of my favourite parts of this website. See below – It started with a very dry ordinance survey map that was updated when the garden was surveyed a year or so ago to decide whether it had merit as a wood… At that time it…
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Happy Christmas and a very happy New Year. Although a white Christmas is uber unlikely, here are some images taken last March of the tree house, bottom meadow and a very snowy top garden. The garden shed was snug and warm for home working on the snow…
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Welcome to the very first post. On a grey December day, the rain is rattling down the window panes in the garden shed as I write this, and the last of the leaves from the mighty oaks surrounding the garden are falling and swirling around the lawn. Th…
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