"How goes the work?" is a favourite phrase from the Farmer Duck book. Having read the book numerous times to small children, it...

It seems such a short while ago that I donned thermal layers to weather the cold outside and watched not very patiently for signs of growth ...

Mid-April, even in the southern counties of the UK, can be cold, wet and windy. This year though, there have been some joyously warm days wh...

There hasn't been a lot to crow about in the winter veg patch but with the sun shining this morning, I found myself muttering 'T...

A quick blog post from me this chilly but sunny Sunday morning as I have strawberries to plant and a herb garden to sort out. Huge sage ...

Regular as clockwork - blossom on the plum tree.   Tonight the clocks go forward in the UK, heralding the start of British Summer Tim...

Hello again, I'm back. Did you miss me? Well I've only been outside in the garden. I've had a winter break from blogging to sort...

I nearly didn't go. The weather has been so poor recently that I found myself questioning the sanity of anyone staging a garden show...

~ What a difference a week makes! ~ Dare I say that I'm moving on from winter?  Too soon? I hope not.  This time last week the gard...

May already!  It's a time I subconsciously look forward to every year.  In my head it symbolises the turning of a corner weathe...

There's a corner of the veg patch garden where, in late 2013, I planted tulips that I'd bought during a visit to Sarah Raven's...

For a week forecast to be cloudy but mild, it's turning out rather splendidly.  I've seen bright warm sunshine every day. I was so e...

The garden has really come alive in the past few weeks so this End of Month look-back makes for a really useful record for future years....

~ Flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) Never mind yellow - Spring is also full of pink. Although I'm not sure that tulip should b...

~ Rosemary flowering at the allotment ~ I couldn't resist a quick visit to the allotment this morning.  The sun was shining, the a...