Which means, I have some time for the blog, sadly neglected. It has been a busy few months as I have had to finish a book, as well spend what time I can in the garden.

I am mostly fairly well right now, with the occasional bad patch, which are bearable enough.

But to business, the garden. [...]

A few weeks ago I bought a tap extension for my front garden tap (currently it lurks in an relatively inaccessible place and this tap extension will just make things easier) and this morning I wandered down the steps into the front garden to fit it, and … was caught by surprise.

What happened? Where did [...]

Over the past week or so I have been moving all the pots of seedlings etc out of the greenhouse and into the top vegie patch where they sit on the wooden edges of the vegetable beds. The greenhouse is getting too warm for them, even covered with shadecloth as it is, plus the greenhouse [...]

I took some photos of the bog garden today, after I’d weeded it and raked and swept the path (for the first time in three years!). It has been a bad day for photographs as the sun is brilliant, and still quite low in the sky … so some of them are not as clear [...]

First, the rose has been cleaned up and taken away by trusty Tony - here is a pic taken this morning. Today has exceedingly bright sunshine, like you so often get after a storm - and because I metered this photo for the shade so you can see the rose, the side of the house [...]