Heart's Desire

An advantage of our unseasonably warm autumn is that we still have some basil doing splendidly in mid-June. 

That's what I'll call this one: I haven't even filled up all of the cells yet (ran out of coconut coir, my choice of potting me...

In amongst the weeds, a little forest of self-sown coriander seedlings; brilliant! And if I knew for sure this was edible, I'd ...

I promised ages ago to show you pictures of my seedlings, but as usual I haven't got around to it, so today here is just a selection: pe...

Weeks and weeks ago I planted a round of sunflowers and hollyhocks against the fence... and some buggers ate over half of them :X I was not ...

Ah, my family know me well! What better gift for this junior gardener than a garden nursery voucher? The good thing about vouchers is that t...

When I wrote about planting my persimmon tree almost a week ago, I mentioned that it was part one of my gardening that day. Well, now here i...

Remember I mentioned that my Fuyu persimmon tree had arrived? He is now in the ground with his own little patch of ground covers. For this ...

Today we're staying inside and looking out. I thought I would show you the view from the kitchen window, where you would stand to do the...

There's a storm on the way, but I took advantage of a calm and warmish afternoon to get out into the garden again, SP sitting in her bou...