I have admired Alys Fowler ever since I first watched her BBC programme called Edible Garden. I had just got into gardening and most of my experience so far was of a garden with just plants and shrubs. Perhaps the odd herb. People who liked growing veg had an allotment. However, watching her tend her […]
Overwatering your houseplant
Despite being green-fingered on the allotment and in the garden, it seems as though there is a whole other set of skills to keeping house plants alive. Ironically, the first ever plant I got was, in fact, a house plant. And that developed into spending more and more time outside visiting gardens until I was […]
Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top – Cottage Gardening in Full Swing
The new place feels almost like home now, I think moving a different part of the country is what is making it a little harder to settle. That and finding a new job. So, to make myself feel better, I decided to look through photos of our little road trips and came across the snaps […]
Container Garden August 2017 – New Home
We’ve moved, again. This time we have gone some 150 miles south, in Oxfordshire. It is for the best, and we are excited to start this new chapter. However, we will be renting, again. I’m starting to fear that we will never be in the position to buy a house, given all the fees and […]
A pit stop at National Trust’s Erddig
One of the things my husband and I enjoy doing together are road trips. We like to go away for a few days and have the time to relax, get away from the internet and going on walks. Consequently, we tend to plan our journeys around National Trust locations as we want to make the […]