Garden beds & borders

23/05/2022

I'm a bit excited. This garden I care for, will be open to the public on the 25th /26th June. If you love a pretty garden, I'd really recommend it. DM me for the address.

14/04/2022

Neil Miller, head gardener at Hever Castle & Gardens in Kent, shares his guide to deadheading daffodils and explains when is the right time to cut them back

24/09/2021

It's all going on underground.

22/06/2021

Yup, all of these things.

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27/02/2021

I think the bees like my hyacinths.

24/10/2020

Finally got round to trimming all the lavender in this beautiful front garden. I love my job. 💚

01/06/2020

How cute is that? Hedgehogs are having a "summer of love"

Hedgehogs have been embracing a "summer of love" without the disturbance of humans

10/05/2020

Ok the propagation instructions seem unnecessarily complex but suggested plants is good.

Image Credit: Alex Bayley @ Flickr Growing new plants from cuttings is a great way to increase your stock in a relatively short time. Rooted cuttings are often sturdier than seedlings, and come to maturity

05/05/2020

I read somewhere you can make an organic liquid feed from daisys.
Well any excuse to pick daisys, I suppose.

04/05/2020

Picked up these little beauties from a stall outside a house near our present mooring. Bit of a bargain me thinks. Hope I can find a good home for them. 💚

03/05/2020

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/derek-jarman-aids-garden-dungeness-prospect-cottage-cinema-hiv-gardening-a9476486.html

In the same year that the avant-garde filmmaker tested positive for HIV, he bought a little cottage in Kent. Mary Katharine Tramontana tells how he gained solace from growing plants during his final years