Category: Flower Days
PICTURE POSTCARDS FROM THE WEEKEND
weekends are filled with my favourite type of small scale exploring. Window peeping, garden watching, allotment wandering and hedgerow foraging. The magic of the glittering…
SUMMER TRAVEL – DRIVE FROM ST IVES TO MOUSEHOLE
We decided ages ago that a weekend in Cornwall was in order before summer really gets going. Car disasters and renovating delays have meant we…
RESTED AND RESTORED – A.S APOTHECARY IN LEWES
Friday! It’s here and faster than usual it seems, although my whole life has been speeding by just lately in a haze of travel, photography…
DAPPLED SUNLIGHT ON A NORTH CALIFORNIAN FARM
I am potting up some climbing nasturtiums today and the anticipation of their tiny first leaves appearing out of the soil reminded me of the…
DESTINATION – NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES
A garden lovers paradise and slice of heaven down here on terra firma. We didn’t even know about the National Botanic Garden of Wales when…
MARCH BOTANICAL PICK ME UP – SUCCULENT MANDALAS
The weeks are running away with me, but at last, I have found time to post my March ‘Botanical pick me up’ post! Today I…
GARDEN RETREAT – THRIFY ‘TEA’ SHED CHALLENGE
How was your weekend?! Mostly wet, windy and grey here, but the painting of the tea shed is all finished at last – so it’s…
WALKING AFTERNOONS
It’s getting pretty busy around here, as you can probably tell from my sporadic posts! But to prevent any kind of cabin fever we have…
SUMMERS END – AN ABUNDANCE OF COLOUR & BLOOMS
Ready for summer’s finale?! We spent a morning at Sarah Raven’s Cutting Garden recently and it was so inspiring. I have missed all the open…
TRAVEL GUIDE – SKÅNE SOUTHERN SWEDEN PART III
Still with me? In part III of my Swedish travel guide, we are heading up the South East coast, through country lanes, quaint villages and…