Fingers Crossed – Facing Chemo Again! No-one was more surprised than myself! I’d been gardening madly to get my huge garden (pictured below) tidy enough to open to raise money for the brilliant Marie Curie Cancer Charity. Then one morning I was putting on some sun cream and felt a knobbly lump on my Collar-Bone […]
Tales from Our Kitchen Garden The weather in East Yorkshire hasn’t been so bad – no hurricanes or floods or horrendous weather conditions like that – but it has been very wet, slightly frosty with little bits of sunshine. Yesterday (the day of the Tour de Yorkshire beginning), our weather decided to give us almost […]
Seasons of Mist Mellow … We know that Christmas is around the corner but it still feels like lazy Autumn days of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ are the prevailing mood in our oh so English garden. This is what it looked like this morning. Ethereal, mystical, pure magic. Time to light a log fire this […]
There are only 2 days left to buy the beautiful collections of Sarah Raven’s Sweet Pea Plants and Seeds with 10% off. Ends Sunday 26th January 2014 My favourite collections are: This beautiful Vintage Silk Sweet Pea Collection, with it’s delicate, subtle colours, contains one of the oldest Sweet Peas known, “Cupani”, the deepest of […]
I suppose to write the title, “What’s Happening Here in 2014” may confuse you – it confuses me at times. But like a lot of you, we have hopes and dreams. Therefore I’ve decided to write a sort of ‘What we hope to do this year, but if we don’t manage it all, we’ll survive’ […]
I just couldn’t resist putting this picture on our site. Last Christmas, Nicola, my son’s partner, had a brilliant idea for my Christmas present. She knew we were moving to a house with an enormous garden, so she gave me a Hollyhock to plant. The information on the packaging said it would grow to about […]
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