The Healing Garden

When I made the decision last year not to have a garden open day in 2022, it must have been a bit of divine intervention at work as I had...

I recently had a rather intense conversation with a friend regarding a particular plant that I grow each year as part of the tropical...

...and what a bizarre year its been! We're just a couple of day's away from the New Year and the weather continues to throw up anomalies....

The open day has come and gone. All of the stress of having the less than perfect garden 'just right' for a single day is just a memory. ...

It seems like an eternity since my last blog post and that's for a simple reason. I've had as much enthusiasm for writing about gardening...

It seems ages since my last blog post and I seem to remember we were in the grip of the 'Beast from the East' with minus 11 temps and...

The beast from the East brought an icy blast coupled with snow storms last week. Here in Moray we had an over night low of minus 11...

My enthusiasm from my last blog post has seriously waned with the continuation of the 'not conducive to gardening weather'. So far I've...

New year has come and gone and I can hardly believe its now the 9th of January already. Even more unbelievable is that I haven't even...

It's hard to believe we are just a couple of weeks away from the end of 2020. I'm sure I won't be alone in saying good riddance to this...

Here we are three quarters of the way through November and the garden is entering the next phase. The hellebores and winter primula's are...

You would think when you are 270 foot up a hillside, that flooding would be the least of you problems. But, as it happens, I'm on a flat...

When you garden for a particular purpose it can be hard to let go of some of the 'traditional' or 'by the book' methods of working. In...

One of my first blog posts was when I decided to leave the fallen leaves on the garden rather than sweep them up religiously and dispose...

2020 has been a slightly more challenging year than usual, not even counting the global health crisis that has curtailed many of our...

I'm rubbish at growing veg. It's true. At the back of the cottage, in the area where an old garage stood I decided to create a veg...

I find late summer and the beginning of autumn (depending on whether your follow the meteorological or astronomical definition of the...

I have to confess, I do watch a lot of gardening programmes and some I watch many times over. I loved Big Dreams, Small Spaces where...

A while back, I watched a programme presented by Alan Tichmarsh called ' Britain's Best Back Gardens'. It showed numerous plots, many...

Here we are in mid summer and the nights are already drawing in! The garden is all over the place, a bit like the world in general I...