We're just back from a lovely week in Somerset and I've got lots of photos I want to share with you of some of the beautiful places we visited. However, since I think I would need to change this blog's name to Gardens wot I have visited if I were to follow on with yet … Continue reading Turning one
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Painshill Park: the weirdness of landscape gardens
Hot on the heels of my trip to Eltham Palace to check out the 1930s planting, yesterday saw me visiting Painshill Park in Surrey, this time to visit an 18th century landscape garden. A bit of potted garden history for anyone interested. The "landscape" style of gardening became popular in the UK around the 1700s; … Continue reading Painshill Park: the weirdness of landscape gardens
Falling in love again
Of course we loved our house when we first bought it. You’ve got to really love a collection of bricks to hand over the best part of half a million pounds, after all. I remember when we first viewed it: I was seven months pregnant, we were looking at 13 houses that weekend and we … Continue reading Falling in love again
Loving the 1930s: Eltham Palace day trip
I always wonder, at some point in a blissful three day bank holiday weekend, whether every single weekend would be as good if everyone only worked a four day week all the time. Surely so much office working is just faffing around, chatting, making coffee, checking emails and so on, that actually it could all … Continue reading Loving the 1930s: Eltham Palace day trip
Grow, forage, cook: stickyweed salsa verde
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I am just absolutely bloody loving this good weather. Oh, the sun! Oh, the warm temperatures! Oh, the chance to potter around the garden, smelling the fabulous springtime smells of new growth out there! Actually, though, not a huge amount of pottering has been done in … Continue reading Grow, forage, cook: stickyweed salsa verde
Plant it now: lavender
I thought it might be nice to start up a(nother) little gardening series, taking a look at some of my favourite plants at the perfect time for planting them in the garden (or sowing seeds). Too often, when I read about plants that I decide I simply must have in my little patch, it’s at … Continue reading Plant it now: lavender
All quiet on the blogging front
I’ve been a little quieter than normal on the blog recently. But don’t worry, I’m not stuck in the same lethargic funk as I was all over the winter In fact, quite the opposite. Chez Wolves in London has been a crazy hive of activity recently. The littlest is going to be one in just … Continue reading All quiet on the blogging front
Finally finished: a toddler cardie
Oh, the sun, the sun of the past few days! Can it really signal an end to this interminable winter at last? I am keeping all fingers and toes crossed that it is so. And so, with the appearance of some warmer weather, it is, naturally, perfect timing for me to actually finish the cardigan … Continue reading Finally finished: a toddler cardie
A few flowers
We continued with Operation Sort-out-the-garden this weekend. It’s an ongoing attempt, that's been running for about, oooh, the 2.5 years we’ve lived in this house. It’s not that I’m not crazy on gardening or that I’m not actually really quite desperate to have a garden that's nice to sit in... it’s just that we’re also … Continue reading A few flowers
Gardening jargon buster: deadheading
Now, it’s highly possible I was alone in this one, but before I started on my horticulture course the principle of deadheading eluded me somewhat. Yes, I grasped the basics: deadheading meant removing old flower heads from a plant. But I never managed to find more information than that. How should I remove them? What … Continue reading Gardening jargon buster: deadheading
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