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Yesterday I met up with the wonderful Malvern Maid and her lovely Malvern Man to explore Marwood Hill Gardens.  We had a great time.  The Big Three of plants, cake and shopping were achieved.  It was a splendid day.  There was a surfeit of gossiping and tangents and gasping. It was very good. And it got me to thinkingContinue reading “Friends”

A daff for my lovely mum, love and kisses YBD x

Just as Brucie has “Nice to see you”, Larry Grayson “Shut that door!” and James T “Beam me up Scottie”, I too have a catchphrase.  It is the rather snappy,”Don’t worry, it’s just a shower!”. After spending a restless night in which the Valkyries hammered at our window demanding entry for hours on end, I drove toContinue reading “Catchphrase”

What a heady brew of a day!  A potent cocktail of rain, hail, sleet and sunshine, all washed down with a wind from the north west that could lift you off your feet.  Unfortunately this wind, and the many others that have preceded it in the past few weeks, has caused much damage in the garden.Continue reading “Heady Brew”

Too tired for words tonight and its only Tuesday!  Perhaps this picture will have a thousand for you.  If so, can you talk amongst yourselves, I’m off to bed.

After an extremely productive morning at the Winkleigh Cider Company, we popped into RHS Rosemoor for lunch and a quick alpine house inspection.  There was one pot that did not have a label, and that belonged to my favourite of this visit.  I had a good old rummage around but to no avail, my champion remained incognito, a mystery.  It might be IpheionContinue reading “Label”

What is better than a good experience?  To share that experience with others.  What is better than a great plant?  You’ve guessed it, to share those plants with others.  Today I went to Incredible Edible Ilfracombe’s event at the newly reopened Lantern, a Green and Growing Seed Swap.  I came home with a fine haul;Continue reading “Share”

An extremely satisfactory day.  I considered sharing photos of newly dug soil enriched with sumptuous mushroom compost, paving slabs defining the vegetable garden, a superhuman tag-team barrowing concrete planters up a progressively steep hill then filling them with soil and Strawberry “Cambridge Favourite”,  holes that once housed ancient fruit bushes and will soon be home to new vigorous specimens, aContinue reading “Pastures New”

“On the way to work this morning I nearly drove into a mountain of mangelwurzles.”

This frilly number, photographed last week at The Farm, is the antithesis of what I consider to be the perfect daffodil.  My idea of daff excellence is a petite form, with elegant reflexed outer petals and an elongated central corona, simple in design, understated and classy.  Just like …. well perhaps not.  On a particularly adventurous day, an orange trumpet wouldContinue reading “Contrary”