Need some Garden Therapy? Here’s how a Hoedown can help!
A Hoedown is what I called my Garden Consultation Service, purely because ‘Garden Consultation’ sounds so boring! Someone called it Garden Therapy as they were feeling so stressed and overwhelmed by...
4 top tips for combating slugs this year
I have a very laid back tendency towards my garden - if things don't do well well 'it was not meant to be' and I generally have quite a hands off approach believing that plants need to survive for...
How to make Blackberry Vodka
It is Blackberry Season and there are lots and lots this year! So we are ploughing through Blackberry and Apple Crumbles, I'll be making Blackberry and Apple Jam like my Nan always used to but...
My Wreath Environmental Manifesto
Its August and I’m going to mention the C word! Christmas! … I’m already planning for this Christmas and the Wreath Workshops that I run. In fact, I took my first booking back in February! I...
Top Six Plants for attracting Insects to your Garden
We’re told time and time again how important our gardens are in keeping the country green and that our plots are a mecca for pollinating insects. The trick is to provide a wide variety of flowering...
7 reasons to go to a local Plant Sale
The season of the Plant Sale is upon us! Local Gardeners and Groups will be sharing details of these sales about now and I urge you to go! Not only will you pick up plants that have been lovingly...
Flowers to make you change your mind about yellow!
Early Spring seems to be the season of yellow: Daffodils, Winter Aconites, Primroses, Crocosus but lots of people have a thing against yellow flowers in their gardens, and I have to...
Oh Christmas Tree
In January this year I posted about how sad I felt seeing all the used real Christmas Trees left outside homes waiting to be collected by our local council to be recycled. It made me wonder about...
Colour for your July Garden
Typically, we think of July as Summertime in Britain. Hampton Court Flower Show, Wimbledon and The Proms all feature this month and are markers of a British Summer. Then picture the...
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