
A Year Foraging for Mushrooms – A Fungi Foray
Longer days and warmer winds bring forth life, leaves unfurling, seeds emerging, magically appearing overnight. Following a dormancy like no other, ready to face the […]
Longer days and warmer winds bring forth life, leaves unfurling, seeds emerging, magically appearing overnight. Following a dormancy like no other, ready to face the […]
The Art of Mushrooms picking is largely misunderstood in the UK, isolated however areas throughout England, Wales and Scotland can provide the ideal climate for […]
As we Spring forward it’s important that we consider how to plan your Seasonal Vegetable Sowing Calendar for the growing season ahead. Professional gardeners will […]
Pancakes comes in all disguises, shapes and sizes, depending on your country of residence you will probably have your own secret recipe. I was fortunate […]
What springs to mind when you hear the word felting? Perhaps you are thinking of felt animals that children use to make scenes or cards, […]
Showy Summer long flowers from the Tropical Crepe Myrtle typically associated with warm climates of Asia and South America the Crepe Myrtle (genus: Lagerstroemia family: Lythracea) […]
There is something quite magically about collecting your own seeds!
Sow Native Milkweed and Save the Monarch Butterfly
My childhood days of farming the land led to gardening for one of the UK’s most prestigious National Trust Red sandstone castle and terraced gardens […]
I have never been interested in material things and whilst I haven’t gone without anything in life, I have usually put my research skills to […]
The Chilean Lantern tree has one of those descriptive common names that makes it easy to idenfity when in flower. Fortunately flowering for several weeks […]
Flowering Ivy is an important evergreen self-clinging vine that has adventitious roots and can either be a flowering or non-flowering climber or ground-cover.
Rewarding us, for good behavior may be a tall tale of childhood Christmas fireside fables but a garden that is tended to all year round […]
Plant of December has to be the Garden (Holly) Ilex in all its Xmas colours, there’s a whole lot more to the prickly holly than […]
My Mother said many years ago “You are at your happiest working in the soil and among your plants” as always she was right, pottering […]
Fall is typically associated with the end of the growing season and time to repair the garden for Winter. It’s Autumn when I often find […]
A week in Philadelphia spent adjusting to my new city scape surroundings and reconnecting with old friends, whilst enjoying the arrival of rustic shades of […]
Apple trees lend themselves to training their delicate young grafted stems to various shapes, namely Espalier tiers, Fan trained or Cordon fruit trees. So whilst many of us don’t have room for an orchard we can often create frame work or clothe a sunny wall with professionally trained fruit trees.
Like many Head Gardener’s my working day starts at 7:30am, in reality I’ve probably already sent several emails, ordered gardening supplies, planned a daily work […]
If like me your are passionate about plants then as the seasons change and Winter becomes Spring and us Gardener’s get to experience a colorful […]
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