My Little Garden 14th May 2022 There’s a little bit of a clue to my Six on Saturday this week in the header shot. Korean lilac, geranium, clematis, azalea, geum and a very tough weigela. So if you’re short on time, you can stop reading now. In a week when…

My Little Garden 07th may 2022 I was very relieved on returning from a trip to Scotland last weekend, to find that all was well in the garden. …

My Little Garden 22rd April 2022 I hope you like tulips because there might be one or two of them featuring in my choice of six again this week. Most are at their peak now, although a few are lagging behind, and there have been some interesting results from my…

My Little Garden 16th April 2022 I love tulip time, and in the midst of a fraught week dealing with various elements of the NHS and Social Services for an elderly relative of the husband, it’s been wonderful to see the changes in the garden every day. The weather has…

My Little Garden 9th April 2022 What’s happened to spring? Most of this past week has been cold and wet, just when we were getting used to mild weather in the garden again. I suppose we needed the rain, and I’d even had to water the pots a couple of…

My Little Garden 2nd April 2022 April is possibly my favourite month of the year. The days are longer, the sun is warm, the showers gentle and refreshing…… well maybe not, but if only this romanticised version of spring was true, all would be perfect in my little garden. …

My Little Garden 26th Mar 2022 It’s been a funny old week, which started with a bit of a spring tidy up in a garden I planted last year. I was pretty pleased with the results and particularly with how the very shady corner was looking in it’s first spring…

My Little Garden 19th Mar 2022 The weather has been very spring-like this week with lots of sun and a day of rain, so the garden has put on loads of growth. It’s fabulous to see all the new shoots popping up, and yesterday I saw my first butterflies of…

My Little Garden 12th Mar 2022 With March in full swing and the occasional day of sunshine to enjoy, I thought I’d take the plunge this week and attempt to locate the exact whereabouts of the lawn mower. …