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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself – May Sarton I’m new to blogging which also seems for me to be a series of losses with a few triumphs – I’m enjoying learning though! Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Note to self – ‘must get better at this hardening off lark‘. Now that it’s substantially warmer both day and night,  I mistakenly thought if I transferred my young plants from my conservatory to my plastic greenhouse for a few nights and then left them out on my garden table for a few more nights,… Read more

Jack has wreaked havoc in the garden this year. He nearly killed my beautiful ceanothus, he has definitely murdered my spectacular potted hebe, and severely depleted the flowers on my clematis montana and wisteria. While he seemed to have disappeared a couple of weeks ago he was clearly lurking somewhere when I decided to harden… Read more