Heart's Desire

Long hiatus... First roses of a rubbish, freezing cold, ridiculously wet spring.  Strawberry Hill Front fence, Strawberry Hill back left (An...

Paul Bocuse (Guillot). Pale peachy pink. Cramoisi Superieur More pink than the red I expected. Lots of flowers for such a little plant.  Gra...

Happy phone-snaps with restless babe on my arm... Yellow Charles Austin (David Austin, bargain buy). Strawberry Hill (David Austin). Can...

It's like Christmas! Fourteen new beauties here, the only one missing from my original order is 'Mme Berade' as it was out of st...

A day spent digging, until the weather came in, at least. Doesn't look at all spectacular, and the lawn is a little worse-for-wear (sinc...

Graham Thomas (David Austin rose)

Please ignore that enormous blank space above. I don't know why it's there, and I can't seem to get rid of it.  How has it been ...

I am pleased to announce the arrival of my new gardening companion: Our little boy, Owen. At less than three weeks old, he's already...