“Gardening is not instant, or a quick fix, do not be fooled by those programmes, life isn’t like that, be prepared for the long haul” this is my rallying speech to new clients. Looking at The Mantles’ garden this week, just over three years since I arrived, I am proud. Not just for me, butContinue reading “Life”
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Six on Saturday – Angels and Demons
Hip hip hooray, it’s another Saturday! I’ve had a haircut and a bowl of chips with mayonnaise and now I am ready for anything. Even a Six on Saturday. No idea what I am talking about? Where have you been? Lost in the Bornean jungle, or Ikea’s soft furnishing department? Don’t worry, Sir Propalot willContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Angels and Demons”
Bus Woman’s holiday
A day off. Joyously free of obligations. No chores or distractions, just gardening, wall to wall, guilt free. The dead were removed, the impatient were put in their place, dahlias, sunflowers and cosmos all planted out, a feast for the molluscs. Perhaps I should have laid out a table cloth. The morning may well bringContinue reading “Bus Woman’s holiday”
An Embarrassment of Riches
Suddenly, there is so much to admire, to drool over. So much to I want to share. An embarrassment of riches. The simple magenta flower of Lychnis coronaria, the rose campion, is today’s chosen one. Elegant, easy and effortless. Enough.
In with the new
It survived its first day on the job!
Out with the old
I’ve got a new camera. Yes another one. I don’t mean my big posh one, that is quite safe. I’m taking about the little Canon Ixus I take to work with me. The abused one. The retiring camera somehow, I can’t remember quite when or where, sustained a chipped lens. Ever since it has beenContinue reading “Out with the old”
Surplus
Whilst roughly chopping vegetables (I always take this instruction as a suggestion of attitude as well as indicator of dice size) for our tea (sausage, haricot bean and harissa stew, since you ask) I noticed that seed in one of the tomatoes had germinated (excuse the blurry photo, I was stirring the onions at theContinue reading “Surplus”
Hookey
I played hookey today. I skived off. There were things that should have been done and weren’t. There is a deadline, don’t you know. But I defiantly chose to ignore it. Instead I visited the garden of some friends, the wonderful Round House. I shared a cuppa with old mates and scoffed a chocolate brownie,Continue reading “Hookey”
Six on Saturday – Another One
Another Six on Saturday. Another introduction to main man, The Prop. Another invitation to join us. Another attempt to take photographs that conceal the slug ravaged, garden mayhem that is my reality. Here we go …. Firstly we have Rhodohypoxis baurii. With minimum (read no) effort, these little charmers come up every spring and flower theirContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Another One”
Drained
By rights I should be a waif. I barely eat a morsel and am on first name terms with each and every personal trainer at the gym. Admittedly this is mostly in my dreams. OK, totally in my dreams. Instead I am sturdy. Which is possibly a better physique for digging out agapanthus on theContinue reading “Drained”
