Many gardeners find themselves out of work at this time of year, with clients looking out into the garden and thinking that there is nothing to do asking their gardeners not to come back till spring. Not only is there plenty to do during the winter, but us gardeners often appreciate the time to get […]
Updates
Plant List – November 2018
A list of everything currently growing in my garden; A record for me, and to see what was still flowering, or flowering again in November. I can also propagate to order if there is something below that you are after. Drop me an email and I will let you know if I have any in […]
The Rose Garden – Part 2
11th May 2018 – I have started to cut the edges in for the new borders that will form the Centenary Rose Garden. Given it is just 5 weeks till Mike and Chrissi open the gardens on 17th June, I am not sure I will have got much going on in these borders, but at […]
The Kitchen Garden
This week I have been concentrating on repairing and renovating the kitchen garden and fruit cage at Packridge Farm. When the garden is in full flow I have very little time to spend in the veg patch and so some of the work I am doing is to try and reduce the amount of weeding […]
Rain, rain and you get the picture
As frustrating as the weather has been these last few days, I never really mind the opportunity to sit and day dream, or go through the many packs of seeds I have planned to sow this coming year. I have a stack of annuals including Bupleurum rotundifolium, a gorgeous lush green foliage plant that I […]