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2010 Month by Month
Tete a Tete narcissi Spring The hellebores survived, their beautiful white flowers lifted to face the sun. The Téte a Téte miniature daffodils came up strongly and lasted for ages. Some of the...
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2011 Month by Month
December 2011 It’s this time of year we are told to tidy up the garden. Cut back the dead flower heads and so on. However they provide winter protection to insects, both desired and undesirable. The...
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General Gardening Notes
August 2011 Felicia Tomatoes are doing well. The grafted Sungold are ripening slowly, Felicia not yet. I can’t see any difference in the grafted and ungrafted Felicia so far. Sungold beginning to ripen...
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Scented Climbing Rose
William and Catherine, David Austin Rose 2011 David Austin’s english roses are the epitome of an english country garden, a gardening style so many strive for. David Austin’s roses fit in most places...
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New ideas for the front and back gardens 2012
Garden Press Event held in the RHS Halls My favourite garden press event was held this month and try as I might I didn’t get to visit all the stands I wanted but the ones I did visit were very...
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Revised Planting Plan for 2012 – In Praise of Plug Plants
Lady in Black - Double flowered fast climbing fuchsia Thompson & Morgan Isn’t it amazing how quickly sometimes plans have to be revised? I’ve had to devise new plan where we will be using plug...
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2012 Month by Month
March 2013 We have decided to move away from Welwyn Garden City and so this diary of our front garden will no longer be possible. We will be starting a new diary entitled Our New Garden in Cumbria in...
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March 2012
14 May 2013 We are moving house imminently and have decided to close this website down as the new property doesn’t have a front garden as such. It has been fun creating this garden from scratch which...
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