I was clearing some things away this morning and my Granny’s old 1963 diary caught my eye...

16 August, 2014 /

August is such a strange month in the garden: it’s got half a foot in Summer and half a foot in Autumn. Having had May, June and July where everything goes mad, there has been a definite slowing down. I always think of August as the...

15 August, 2014 /

I tend to get up very early; wash up, put the washing in, hang the washing out, clean the kitchen etc etc. At 05:30 I can do all this stuff when the world is still quiet and calm and feel that I can properly start...

08 August, 2014 /

So basically I should be packing the car now, but I’ve got a bit of a pink thing going on at the moment...

23 July, 2014 /

I needed to revamp the ikebana today, but I have so much orange in the garden at the moment I just wanted to use some subtler colours...

18 July, 2014 /

I planted this cactus dahlia tuber last year and for the first time ever I managed to produce a flower. All other attempts have been continually sabotaged by snails...

16 July, 2014 /