What’s going on: end of August

Where is this year going?! Where on earth did summer go?! It’s the end of August and the…

Parrot Flower Power – iPhone app and Bluetooth sensor gizmo

For Christmas, Chris bought me a Parrot Flower Power – what is it? It’s a battery…

Littlebury in August

I started our garden in spring with tiny plants. I didn’t want an instant garden at…

35 Turret Grove Open Garden

The National Garden Scheme (NGS) is brilliant because it raises money for charity and lets us…

Brachyscome iberidifolia (blue) window box pruning

Back at the start of the year we spent ages trying to decide the type of…

Cragside, Northumberland

In July 2014 we went on a road trip around the north of England and Scotland,…

Biddulph Grange

In the summer of 2014 we had a staycation in the UK, roadtripping it to Yorkshire,…

Cacti mini garden

Three barrel cacti, including one from Chelsea Flower Show 2014. The flowering one is obviously the…

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014

I went to the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time this year and it was…

Clapham Manor Street front garden

At the Chelsea Flower Show 2014, one of the gardens I loved the most was the…