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Cosmic Cosmos
This is one of my favourite Summer blooms and even better, it’s one of the easiest flowers to grow from seed. Also, they grow densely and have a good vase life. It’s always the flower I recommend people giving a go, and now is the time to start thinking about growing them. I therefore thought it would be useful to summarise how I grow mine. How do you grow them? I usually…
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Embracing Evergreens
One of the things I love about Instagram is the ability to be able to look back through my pictures and see what my garden looked like in previous years. While Spring and Summer is when the garden really bursts into activity, I love the slow decline and the stillness that Autumn and Winter brings. Structural plants really come into their own throughout the Winter months, and I believe them to be an…
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Bringing The Outside In
This week I brought a little of the outside in, in the form of some Hawthorn blossom, and it got me thinking about the wonders of foraging. Where I can, I always try to incorporate blooms into my bouquets from either my garden or from the hedgerows where I live, I think of it as my own little signature. However, I’m also very aware of the importance of doing this sustainably. So, for this week’s blog…
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Potting up your Darling Dahlias
The Darling Dahlia (as I like to refer to them) is one of my favourite flowers. They can bloom well into October and are rather beautiful, coming in all shapes, sizes and colours (so many in fact that there is one there for everyone). Even better, they are very low maintenance (my type of flower) and will thrive in most sunny spots and soils so long as there is good moisture and drainage. Back in October I wrote a blog…
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Asymmetrical Amazing Flower Arrangement
My mum was a great gardener and a very keen one. The borders in her garden were deep and full of large shrubs, offset against the prettiest English roses and flowers. As a result, I remember frequently being out in the garden with my mum – maybe, this is where my love for gardening stemmed from. Gardening for me is pure escapism and even though my mum is no longer…
