I am a 30-year-old woman who cannot afford to buy her own house and is therefore likely to rent for a very, very long time. I am also a 30-year-old woman who loves gardening. Consequently, I have chosen paving slabs over lawn in every house we have lived in, reason being that you cannot alter […]
Hidden Nature – Alys Fowler
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 […]