With summer temperatures rising, crops ripening and the herbaceous borders blooming, for once I got it wrong this year for booking a holiday  in sunny Greece when it has been 30 C  back here !! But to paint the scene,…

Its the most busy time in the gardens right now with new bedding plants and perennials coming out from the glasshouse, tender sub-tropical plants being integrated into the borders and newly sourced rare plants finding a new home.  Planting time…

It's been a long wait this year but at last we have Rhododendrons, Magnolias and Camellias in full flower now. I feel we are behind two weeks on last year. With so many plants being held back with the cool…

Well we've just had a run of three dry weeks and the ground has shown signs of drying up, just enough to be able to get the tractor and trailer out and about with loads of lovely well rotted muck…

I've known far worse winters, although not quite so wet !!  I realize it is only early February but one senses spring is just around the corner. Snow is still predicted up north but us soft southerners are already packing away the…