This is Harold. Harold is 15 weeks old today. He is a miniature wire haired dachshund and he belongs to Sarah – and, as you can see, he truly loves her. This is a white Scabious. The scabious also belongs to Sarah. And this is the Thames estuary just outside Faversham where Sarah, Harold and …
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All a-buzz in Belsize Park….
It was the South End Green Fair today – a generally very pleasant and jolly affair with lots of goodies to eat – only slightly dampened by being the first day on which we have had any serious rain for about a month! (Do think the weather gods could have been bit kinder…) However we …
10 tips on how to run a large London garden on two hours a week….
Last month I was asked, as a result of my review of Tom Ogren’s latest book on allergen free gardening, to write a piece for a gardening website. I was deeply flattered! So, since I know that half of you who read my blog only do so for the garden, I thought I would share …
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Giant veg!
Just imagine – a cabbage that could feed 60!!! I couldn’t believe my ears – but, this was Gardeners’ Question Time and you do not disbelieve what you hear on Gardeners’ Question Time. (In the same episode Bunny Guinness was singing the praises of ‘mineralised straw mulch’ – THE answer to snails and slugs – which …
Spring in north London
Readers who follow my garden pages will already have seen spring start to burst in our garden but blossom has been following blossom in such profusion over the last few weeks that it seemed criminal not to share them more widely. So… Pictured above the the cherry tree in the front garden – a glorious …
Daffodils….
As a rule, my garden is firmly penned in to its own page on this blog and not allowed to escape. But, so spectacular is this year’s display of Ice Follies that it demanded to be let out so that it could be seen by the wider world! The Ice Follies came as the gift …