After nearly a year of photographing these monthly garden moodboards, I've come to realise that getting the main shot is a little like taking a group family photo. You line everyone up neatly, check they're standing in a good position, look through the lens, go back to the group, move someone a little, ask someone … Continue reading Garden moodboard: April
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Amorous frogs…
...it must be Spring! It seems to be frog mating season in our pond; every time I wander down to the end of the garden I can hear a low melodic ribbiting and look over to the pond to see at least four sets of frogs, clinging to each other in an endless embrace in … Continue reading Amorous frogs…
Garden moodboard: March
Isn’t Spring bloody great? I’m practically elated to be back to my garden in time for this fabulous early March weather. As I collected the flowers for these pictures, the sproglet was careening up and down the garden (as full as Spring fever as I am), the air was scented with blossom from next door’s … Continue reading Garden moodboard: March
Garden moodboard: February
It's slightly ironic (in the non-Alanis Morissette sense of the word) that when I have horticulture exams to revise for, my garden becomes completely abandoned. Any spare time I have must be spent revising, not weeding, planting or pottering about with secateurs. And so it is, that I am publishing my monthly garden moodboard 17 … Continue reading Garden moodboard: February
AWOL
My lovely blog readers, it's that time again... The second batch of my horticulture exams are in less than two weeks and, just like last June, I must bury my head in my books until then and concentrate on revision. So no blog posts from me, I'm afraid, until some point after February 11th when … Continue reading AWOL
Beautiful right now: plants for winter
As you may recall, every Wednesday I leave the sproglet in the capable hands of my mother and trot off, unfettered and unencumbered, to Regent’s Park, where I spend the day learning all about horticulture (or “gardening” in layman’s terms…) I absolutely love this course, both for what I learn about and for the freedom … Continue reading Beautiful right now: plants for winter
Frosty mornings
Urgh, all this rain! I can't bear the sogginess of it all. It's cheered me up no end that a few mornings this week I've woken not to the interminable patter of rain on the roof, but to the sight of frost on the ground and the big orange sun peeping out through the trees … Continue reading Frosty mornings
Garden moodboard: January
Hot on the heels of my lateness with new year’s resolutions (or lack thereof) I am also running a good few weeks late with my garden moodboard for January. What can I say, it’s been pissing it down outside and there is not a single new plant to show you from my Mum’s garden since … Continue reading Garden moodboard: January
Garden moodboard: December
Since I haven't seen our house for a fortnight now, I can only imagine what the garden is looking like in December. (Covered in builder's tools, bricks and building dust I would guess...) Here at my Mum's, I've a few evergreen plants to show you that really sum up the festive month of December. Actually, … Continue reading Garden moodboard: December
Garden moodboard: November
It's been something of a frantic November, so far, with the excitement / stress of packing all the boxes in time for the builders to arrive. But yesterday I managed to grab a few minutes to go out into the garden for my November moodboard photos. It was a gloriously sunny Autumn day, here in … Continue reading Garden moodboard: November
Wolves in London 