The garden has reached its late summer peak, the evenings are drawing in and the night time temperatures are dropping, but the garden is still alight with flowers. I do love the prairie style of planting with echinacea’s and stipa…
Category: Autumn
Getting into the garden – November 2020
Rain, rain, go away, come back another day… it just seems endless at the moment, doesn’t it? It has been a mast year for acorns this year, they started falling in August and still they keep falling. I reckon I’ve…
Getting into the garden – October 2020
Autumn is here, and the garden is at the stage of looking refreshed before autumn really kicks in. July and August the plants tend to struggle but after a bit of rain, the garden is having a last hurrah before…
Getting into the garden – September 2020
School’s are back, and there is a definite hint of autumn in the air with the start of leaves turning. With the extreme heat in August and managing to escape to Cornwall for a few weeks, the garden has had…
Getting into the garden – November 2019
We’ve had our first frost and the autumnal leaf colours are at their peak. From here on until mid-December gardening for me is all about leaf clearing and having the right tools for the job certainly helps make life easier. …
Getting into the garden – October 2019
September was a month of two extremes’. Some stunning warm days, followed by torrential rain at the end of the month, however the garden still has lots of colour to enjoy. On those beautiful warm days, I got around to…