How to Make a Bulb Lasagne
A bulb lasagne is a simple idea – layering up your bulbs in order to get more than one set of flowers from each container pot you own. It’s simple […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Colchicums..a pretty autumn-flowering bulb
This month, instead of focusing on a cut flower, I thought I’d turn to garden flowers which are in bloom at the moment. If you’ve been out and about enjoying […]
Autumn in Still Life: Bringing the Autumn Garden into your Home
I am not a lover of contrived arrangements, I prefer to admire my flowers in the garden and not in the vase, although, I do appreciate bouquets of flowers when […]
A shout out for Alliums
As I said in my last post, I am most enamoured of plants that provide the greatest amount of gorgeousness for the littlest amount of effort. I am no martyr […]
The Why and the Wherefore: Autumn
“In my end is my beginning.” A perfect epitaph for summer, and the real epitaph of TS Eliot, whose words made their first appearance at the end of his poem […]
From the Allotment Cutting Patch in October
The nights are getting longer, the days shorter and there is a distinct chill to the air on the allotment now. I had been hoping for an Indian summer but […]
Autumn Harvest competition winner…
Thanks for all your entries into our Autumn Harvest competition – you can check out all the entries over on our Pinterest page… we loved your inspirational use of local […]
Seedhead heroes
Three or four years ago there was a buzz on craft and design blogs about umbellifer flowers and seedheads. Cow parsley, fennel and Queen Anne’s lace had become a major […]
