I’m interested in contrasting and complimentary shapes so experimented in this south-facing border with irises, alliums, box and daisies backed with wisteria, roses and clematis. My colour palette for this bed was shades of greens and purples, with white highlights. The box balls echo the round shapes of Allium Purple Sensation and daisies, with the iris providing...
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Spring is all about detail as tiny flowers in bright colours vie for your attention, then there is a massive surge as whole trees are covered in blossom! Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer.
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Woburn Abbey Gardens was another place on my list of local gardens to revisit. We went on a clear but blowy bank holiday monday. Lovely maze (keep the hedge on your left-hand side to find the middle – same to find the way out!), deer park, bog garden, art works, grotto … must go back to look round the house...
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With the beautiful weather over Easter, we went to visit Chenies Manor, nr Rickmansworth one afternoon. I’d forgotten it had such a good vegetable garden, maze and labyrinth, as it’s more commonly known for the spring display of tulips. Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSe
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It’s so exciting seeing bulbs erupt with such an explosion of colour! Have a look at these beautiful tulips and spring bulbs at Childwickbury. Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer.
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I was given some seed bombs for Mothers’ Day. They are fascinating and full of promise! The seed bombs are firm and heavy with seeds and earth packed tightly together. These ones were made into cakes with an embossed motif on the top and were the size of a chocolate brownie, but one contains the seeds of red clover Trifolium pratense and the other of wild...
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I saw this article today in The Guardian and it helped me understand what’s been going on. I thought I’d been choosing the wrong plants for our changing weather, but no, it’s nature itself playing a wild card. “A large number of shrubs and...
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Childwickbury on the first day of spring and already showing signs that the seasons are changing. Robust Helleborus x hybridus and delicate Crocus Queen of the Blues have both escaped being eaten by deer and rabbits.
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