Six on Saturday: 22 July
Saturday’s come round again with its usual vigour. It only seems like a week ago that I was sending my last update to the interwebs. The number of bloggers joining in is growing. You’ll ... Read More
Six on Saturday: 15 July
Another week has flown by and it’s time to join ThePropagator‘s weekly meme thing where we present, for your delectation, six things that are in our gardens on a Saturday. I’ve spent... Read More
Changing Surroundings: Tree Following July 2017
Squirrelbasket hosts this tree-following meme over at her blog. She’s a lot more ambitious than I. She’s following an avenue of 100 trees. And she has to walk some way to catch up with the... Read More
Six on Saturday – 8 July
Yep, I’m writing this on Friday. Seems I’m not the only one though. And I’ll be checking before I publish this post that everything is still there “tomorrow”. Thanks as a... Read More
Deffro Mae’n Dydd
That’s Welsh, you know. Means “Awake it is the Day”. Which is sort of appropriate for Hemerocallis, aka daylilies. My “proper” daylilies have decided to wake up all of a ... Read More
Six on Saturday – 1 July
I’m getting the hang of this now. I didn’t think I’d keep up a weekly post for long but, like Nick over at Sweetgum and Pines, have found that the discipline involved in a weekly sna... Read More
Six on Saturday – 24 June
As my back has stopped play for the day, I thought I’d have a second go at The Propagator‘s six things in the garden on Saturday meme. And that’s a... Read More
Six on Saturday – 17 June
Fellow blogger The Propagator has a meme going with the theme of “Six on Saturday” – six things going on in the garden. I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon this week. Don’... Read More
A Little Gem Below the Coal Tip
I’ll lay my cards on the table: I’ve never been a great fan of the National Garden Scheme (NGS). All too often, gardens turn out to be much of a much-ness; perhaps those who decide whether... Read More
Promise of Things to Come (Tree Following June 2017)
It’s tree following time again. Thanks, as always, go to Squirrelbasket for hosting this meme. As regular readers will know, I’m being lazy and am following a tree standing in the middle o... Read More
Roses Grow on You
Sometimes I get a bit irritated by all the photos that people post to their blogs, Twitter and wotnot, of the latest plants in bud or full bloom in their gardens. I know that those “down Souf... Read More
A Month of Acceleration: Tree Following May 2017
Thanks as always to Squirrelbasket for hosting this tree-following meme. Click the tree thingy to have a look at her blog. For the benefit of any new readers, I’m following a crab apple tree aro... Read More
Bombed By Crabs: Tree Following April 2017
Thanks, as usual, to Squirrelbasket for hosting this meme. This is the time of year when my malus suddenly springs into new growth, bombing unsuspecting passers-by as it rids itself of any remaining r... Read More
And the Point Is?
Not far from me there used to be a Wyevale Garden Centre. Their lease ran out. Bye Wyevale. Others moved in. To begin with the “new” place was as close to gardening heaven as a garden ce... Read More
Reflections
Yesterday someone, as yet un-named so he’s an anonymous “someone”, took it upon himself to try to advance some cause by killing people as Westminster became a target for his delus... Read More
Please Be Seeded and I’ll Begin
These are the continuing adventures of the seedship enterprise currently occupying the only decent-sized window sill in the house and half the greenhouse. Regulars will remember that my initial seed e... Read More
Tree Following: March is Pedicure Time
I’m late to the party this month, not that this is unusual for me! I’ve had a fun month. Doris (remember Doris) clobbered the fence on one side of the garden. Repairs were complicated by t... Read More
Feeling Seedy (Seed Following 2017)
ANNOUNCEMENT: After a bit of fun and games, this blog has now settled down at a new hosting company and with it’s “proper” address: https://rivendellgarden.blog. There’s a sepa... Read More
Tree Following February 2017: Malus Aforethought
Many thanks to Squirrelbasket for hosting this monthly meme #Treefollowing Remember my tree? Remember the photo of it I included in my initial tree-following post? Well, though the photo was r... Read More
SEED FOLLOWING FOR 2017
“In for a penny …..” they say. In my last post (well, the last before that accidental book review) I announced I was following a tree. In this one, I’m announcing that I’m going also to be f... Read More
Book Review: “A Gentle Plea for Chaos” by Mirabel Osler
It’s been a while since I reviewed a book. I read a lot but keep forgetting to make notes or add some of those sticky little marker strips as I go along and it then becomes too much of a hassle ... Read More
I’M FOLLOWING A TREE FOR 2017
I’ve never grasped the nettle on these meme things, having reached that age where technology is starting to frighten me. But I made a couple of discoveries today. First there’s a tree-following me... Read More
Are you a dwarf, elf or wizard?
Sorry. This post has nothing at all to do with gardening, other than that a fair number of gardeners have been, it seems, caught by something. It’s written clumsily but will be “improved&#... Read More
No Paper Please
It’s still me – just a new hosting company, new design (there’s a nifty add-on in the sidebar on the right – scroll down – and another on the home page – link oop t... Read More
The Joys of Alstroemeria
Do you ever find yourself in the position of having a clear favourite plant? Over some nearly 50 years of gardening (I’m not that old; I just started before I was born!) I’ve had a few. In the day... Read More
New Rake on the Block
I heard about a new magazine on the block and decided to try it out. But what I got wasn’t exactly a magazine. The first thing that struck me was the smell. Whether due to paper, glue or, more proba... Read More