I love a good gardening book, so I was chuffed when I received a requested review copy of Kate Bradbury’s The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. Kate moves to Brighton after a break-up and finds herself in a small flat with an even smaller garden with soil that has not seen the light of day in what […]
A dry summer
We were going on holiday on Sunday. I spent Saturday watering the garden and shifting all the plants to the part of the garden that gets the least shade. We hadn’t had (and still haven’t at the time of writing) any rain since May bank holiday, 6 weeks. It has been a dry summer so […]
June: on enjoying wildlife and cherishing moments without a shutter
I have never been a fan of June. I suffer quite badly with hay fever, and this year has been particularly challenging. Moody for weeks, exhausted at the end of each day, reaching for my inhaler daily, and yesterday (Saturday) was the first bed day I had had in quite a while. This year, however, […]
Creating a flower bed in a rented home
We’ve been lucky with the gardens and allotments we’ve had up north. I had heard that you can have sandy soil, clay soil and, if you’re lucky, you’d get the soil that was just right – not too free-draining, and not too water-retaining. I hadn’t realised we had been lucky until we moved into our […]
Container Garden – May 2018
With May, plants shoot up and are getting ready to welcome the summer months. When you’re tending your garden day to day – sowing seeds, potting on, adding new plants – you don’t realise quite how much has changed until you look at photos or videos from a few months ago. The last video I […]