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I'm rather chuffed that we've made the Independent's list of top 50 Garden Centres and Nurseries in the UK. Click here for the online version. This pic is in the print version. If you don't know much about us, we grow hardy
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(cont. from Part One... Scroll down if you want to skip the waffle and go straight to the before and after pictures) That first year was like living in a permanent hurricane. Every day something new emerged in the garden or nursery and every morning brought another quest to identify
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Five years ago today a large removal van pulled away from outside our old, rambling Victorian house with all our worldly goods inside and drove 20 miles south down the A49 to Bluebell Cottage. We followed behind with two cats and one daughter (we dropped the other daughter off at
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It's five years this week since Dave and I moved into Bluebell Cottage and I am still asked quite regularly how we ended up here. So here's the story, with the benefit of the sharp perspective of a rear-view mirror. Go on, you know you want
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Present me with an apple tree in need of pruning and I become a touch philosophical. I could write a book about pruning a single tree - not so much about the technical how-tos of the pruning itself but about the whether and why. The question of how much to
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Want to buy a plant for Christmas for the gardener in your life? My guest blog on the BBC Gardener's World website might help.... Sue's Guest blog on BBC website
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It's bare root planting season and if you do one thing this winter, plant a new tree. I don't buy the 'my garden is too small for a tree' nonsense. The floor space that the trunk of a small tree takes up is negligible.
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For each of the last five years I have blocked out two clear weeks in my diary in November to make space for a proper holiday. And each year it's been whittled away - (I'm going to mostly, but not entirely fairly, blame Dave) - until
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We've been away for our annual winter break. It has become a Beesley tradition to plan to take a fortnight off, but for it to get whittled away at the edges until all that's left is a three day break in Anglesey in a howling gale.
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This summer was my fifth at Bluebell Cottage Gardens. Conventional wisdom has it that you should spend at least a year in a garden and observe it carefully before making major changes, rather than rushing in. Fortunately for the garden, my vast appetite for change has been more than sated
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Tonight is one of those rare nights that I already know I will remember. It's 8pm on the 29th September and pitch dark, but I am sitting outside, warm and comfortable in my work shorts and one of Dave's thin wool jumpers. We recorded 26.7C
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I do love the garden in September. I know that it is past it's colourful best and that there are gaps where earlier flowering plants have died back. But, rather like me at 50, the autumn garden is silvery, softening and running to seed. It has its own