It's the bucolic dream: cooking with produce fresh from your veg patch, or plucked from the hedgerow with your own fair hands. A lamb bleats contentedly in the background, the birds cheep overhead, the sun shines down through the trees, the dappled shade ripples over your wheelbarrow and far away up a hill, a shepherdess … Continue reading Grow, forage, cook
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Garden moodboard: August 2014
Oh the joys of an English summer! July was gloriously sunny for the most part and my garden has been putting forth some of my favourite flowers as a result. If last month was a little bare, this month has surely been making up for it, with snapdragons, pink roses, white cosmos, frothy nigellas and … Continue reading Garden moodboard: August 2014
5 ideas from Hampton Court flower show
Last Wednesday I spent a gorgeous sunny day wandering round Hampton Court flower show. It was an English summer personified: the drowsy song of bees in the air, the sun beating down with occasional white clouds drifting across the blue skies, endless (endless!) stalls selling Pimms and rather a lot of people dressed in striped … Continue reading 5 ideas from Hampton Court flower show
Vintage gardening books
You know me by now, right? Lover of plants, books and all things vintage. So you’ll understand why I just had to share some photos of my latest haul with you. A haul of… wait for it… vintage. gardening. books. I know! On our recent visit to Wisley, I couldn’t resist the lure of a … Continue reading Vintage gardening books
Wonderful Wisley
Last Sunday, we strapped the sprogs into their car seats, cracked the windows open to let in some warm summer breezes and set off along the A3 heading for RHS Wisley. I wasn't sure how enjoyable the rest of the Wolves in London clan were going to find the excursion; all of them so far … Continue reading Wonderful Wisley
Garden moodboard: July
I had a bit of a conundrum with my garden moodboard this month. On Saturday morning, I was standing in the middle of the garden, secateurs in hand, ready to snip snip snip away at lots of nice flowers to photograph them – as is my wont every month. But as I looked round my … Continue reading Garden moodboard: July
The garden in June
I know, I know, I've been a bit garden-tastic over the past few weeks, what with all my chat about greenhouses and sheds and so on. I am working on some more craft-related posts at the moment too, you may be relieved to hear, but I couldn't resist joining in once more this week with … Continue reading The garden in June
I want this so badly
Before accepting that I must keep my old tumbledown greenhouse in the garden, for the time being at least, I spent a long time searching online for a greenhouse slash garden shed slash potting house. It seemed such a straightforward idea to me. One little building that housed plants, tools, and all that junk that … Continue reading I want this so badly
Pimp my greenhouse
As spring turns to summer, my thoughts turn to the unwieldy beast at the end of my garden. I speak, of course, of my greenhouse. When we first moved in, I planned, immediately, to replace it with something sophisticated like this: Then I saw the price tag. And so, I must reconcile myself to living … Continue reading Pimp my greenhouse
Garden moodboard: June
I love my garden, but it sometimes feels as if I am in constant battle with it. And it with me. When I first started taking photographs for these garden moodboards, in May last year, I imagined that by the following year my whole entire garden would look beautiful, not just the odd flower. More … Continue reading Garden moodboard: June
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