The Garden Chapters
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Notes from the Pond ‘25
June 5, 2025I’ve started planting the pond borders. Before we built the pond, it was a wild little forest filled with self seeded trees, 29 tyres, so much rubble, wood, metal - a dumping ground. It was also rife with so many vigorous nettles, dock leaves & wildflowers - all wonderful, but… -
The Front Borders in Summer ‘25
May 30, 2025This is the first year the front borders have finally started to come together, although there are lots of gaps & room for growing. It’s a tapestry of delicate foliage and colours woven together. There’s lots of topiary for year round structure and to anchor it all together. Apple green… -
Golden Hour in Spring ‘25
May 30, 2025The ephemeral beauty of glowing stems and petals during golden hour. -
The Front Borders in Spring ‘25
April 16, 2025The front garden was an explosion of spring jewels, a tapestry of texture and fresh emerging growth. We started this garden 2.5 years ago & there’s still lots of tweaking, growing, sculpting to be done. But it’s starting to take shape. It’s the only garden I’ve really poured my heart… -
For the love of Hellebores - The Ever Growing Collection
February 16, 2025They rise up from the Winter soil, from the depths of the darkness. In the bitter coldness and between the gaps in the rain, there are rays of fleeting sun which illuminate these jewels. Partial to some shade, you will also find them amongst the woodland shadows and mossy floors… -
Documenting the Garden Wildlife
February 7, 2025Here is all the wildlife in our garden that I’ve managed to capture on camera. All taken from our 1/5 of an acre garden (or inside our house), but the deer and hare photos were taken from our garden, looking out onto the surrounding land. I’ll swap out the photos… -
Windows Through the Seasons
January 12, 2025Watching the seasons unfold, day by day, from the bedroom windows. A view that charms in the rain, sun, snow and fog. Violet skies, rainbows, pink watercolour skies, honey guilded leaves, bare bones of the trees, cherry blossom, rivers of pale blue forget-me-nots and white petticoat roses amongst a sea… -
Autumn ‘24
December 1, 2024At first the trees were flecked with gold. They were soon gilded in honey, amber, russet and ochre. There were tumbling branches strewn with yellow and gold leaf jewels. I crunched my way through leaves on the floor as my excitement of finding Autumn’s magical charms grew. I found leaves… -
Spring ‘24
July 14, 2024The front borders And there she was - Spring! There was bird song, lambs bleating, the pitter patter of rain and colour poured out from everywhere. The front borders were woven with precious jewels, tulips, cobalt anemones, shining narcissi, gently nodding fritillaries, sweet muscari, amongst a structure of topiary, ferns,… -
Winter ‘23 and ‘24
March 4, 2024Winter has been very wet, and still is very wet. December was very tiresome as usual - the short days and busyness of Christmas. There’s never much room for garden things or even thinking about garden things. But then February comes, the garden awakens with birds singing and jewels of…