I used to do a Weekly Snaps post virtually every Sunday or Monday a couple of years ago. I never meant for it to stop, it's just that other things inevitably got in the way...

20 May, 2019 /

For about a week or so every October, just before the frosts, wind and rain, my Virginia Creeper literally makes my garden glow, and the late flowering nasturtiums are such a welcome compliment of colour...

15 October, 2016 /

I’ve been desperate for September to arrive so that I can talk about Autumn and the wonderful sense of change it brings: it’s smells, it’s colours, it’s light, it’s sounds, without feeling like I’m betraying Summer (...

01 September, 2016 /

A & E table with half eaten dahlia, recovering verbascum seedling, some mystery plant I’ve rooted which my mum gave me, a giant echium seedling and some lily of the valley bulging seed heads...

06 June, 2016 /

I was determined to tidy up this morning before getting to the computer, but I got distracted by the roses I was about to throw away, then by Snapchat, then by a beautiful ranunculus, then by The Cheeks, but when the light’s good and the...

21 March, 2016 /