Gardening

As we walked out of our drive a month or two ago, we noticed an odd hole. There are no rabbits here and cats rarely make holes, just a smelly dump. We knew it was odd but thought no more about [...]

I love my garden. It is a place of boundless surprises. A plant comes into flower that you did not expect and brings joy. However, I tend to be bouncing around the plot doing this and doing that. [...]

I am in Shrewsbury, where Ann was born and where we married in 1971. At a cafe in Butcher Row, staring at all the older people walking past. After all, I might just know them. It proves futile. [...]

It’s that dreaded slug attack time. This year has been so bad that I am seriously thinking of giving up on plants that feature on the slug menu. That suggests that I would need to stop [...]

Tulips and springtime, what a combination. Every morning I leap out of bed and find a window. Down below, my tulips flourish and my heart sings. All that work back in the Autumn, reading the [...]

It’s now light when I leap out of bed every morning. The first thing I do, before preparing breakfast, is too look out at the garden. I talk to it, ever keen to see more growth and flowers. [...]

I love worms! A hate killing (earth)worms when I am gardening. I even stop on runs or walks to pick one off the path and put it on the verge. If this seems an odd subject then bear in mind that [...]

Ah, the bulbs are all in. It took me the best part of a month to plant about 700. Yes, the figure is correct. I have a bad dose of tulip fever and there is no cure. Well, that is not entirely [...]

My neighbour walked by with his little daughter. She wanted to be lifted to look over the wall at my flowers. He told me she is suddenly infatuated with flowers. I picked a flower stem off a [...]

It was my turn to swop places. No longer the garden visitor but rather the gardener. With our garden not being finished we were not ready to enter. However, it is to support the local community [...]