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 […]
Search Results for Winter
Foraging for Mushrooms – How to Identify, Find and Prepare Wild Mushrooms
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 […]
How to Plan your Seasonal Vegetable Sowing Calendar
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 with a twist – Nalesniki Polish Pancake Recipe
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 […]
The Art of Felting at Chapel Crafts
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 tropical climates of Asia and South America the Crepe Myrtle (genus: Lagerstroemia family: Lythracea) has been making it’s way slowly Northwards. Preferring sheltered […]
Seed Collection an Avid Gardener’s Second Career.
There is something quite magically about collecting your own seeds!
Sow Native Milkweed and Save the Monarch Butterfly
Sow Native Milkweed and Save the Monarch Butterfly
Farmer Gardening in a Concrete Jungle of Tropical Flowers
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 […]
Grow with Love and Cherish Life’s Most Precious Things
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 […]
Chilean Lantern Tree – Crinodendron hookerianum – Plants of Distinction
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 […]
Gardening for Growth – Pic of the Day – Flowering Ivy
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.
Have You Been A Good Gardener this year?
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 […]
Garden Holly and Flowering Ivy – A Bouquet of Christmas Cheer
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 […]
Pammy’s Gardening for Growth
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 […]
A Garden Cure – Writers Block
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 […]
Fall Begins with a Warm New Jersey Welcome
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 […]
How to Grow Apple Trees in Small Gardens
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.
Drink Fresh Herbal Tea for Increased Vitality and Give your Garden Health a Tonic.
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 […]
A Colourful Gardening Affair with Iris.
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 […]
