Soil and Things Carrying on with the site survey of the new garden – which pretty much applies to the entire palace garden, I’m taking a deep dive to examine all of the extenuating circumstances that impact the garden that need to be acknowledged and really can’t be ignored. Today I’m not in the garden thanks to the weather. It is technically winter so I … Continue reading Soil and Things
Spring Things in the Greenhouse Do you ever have a season in your life where it is extraordinarily busy and all you have time to do is put one foot in front of the other. Well I have. I can’t exactly put my finger on what it was that made things so busy, but it has been a struggle. But the garden has always … Continue reading Spring Things in the Greenhouse
This is not how I meant to start the year. I have dropped the ball and started to fall by the wayside. But I had a very good excuse. I somewhat foolishly decided it would be a good idea to open up my garden to the general public so they could see what I had done. I had no real plan – a sort of … Continue reading Epic visit
The updates here are slim right now and I can only offer excuses. Firstly, a lot of what has been going on in the garden has been rather same samey, which can come across as repetitive and boring. I’m not sure there are enough descriptive words in the thesaurus to tell you I weeded or chopped down another cover crop and prepared a bed to … Continue reading I blame Spring for everything
Spring has sprung and I think this time I’m ready for it. This is largely due to the amazing weather we had as winter drew to a close. I feel like it was a bit of an apology for being such an awful soggy stormy season. But now spring is here and she has her own preferences and has turned the thermostat back down from … Continue reading Bring on Spring
The garden is at that crucial point in the new season where almost everything is ready and waiting to go. The beds have been prepped, the seeds have been sown and are almost ready to leave the greenhouse and be planted in the soil that is ready for them. It is that magical in between time, where the garden that was in your head all … Continue reading A spring garden tour
Having completely missed my June garden video tour due to the work on The Palace, as well as ordinary gardening things, I decided I should make the effort for an end of July garden video tour. I was aiming for the last day of July but it was just too windy so I got up early in the still of the morning, in a chilly … Continue reading One Month Until Spring
And just like that we are a quarter the way through the year. I really don’t know how it happens. I get up every day and try to make the most of the hours ahead of me and go back to bed exhausted. It would seem life is somehow speeding up without me noticing. I do find April a challenging month though. I seem to … Continue reading April … Done and Dusted
This is a strange time of year. Daylight savings has ended but it is still warm-ish and we are wandering about our days feeling it should be later than it is, which strangely gives us more time in our days. It won’t last and soon enough we will get used to the new ebb and flow of time and know exactly where we are and … Continue reading March and A Week Garden Tour
To mark the last day of January I filmed a quick garden tour to show the state of the garden as it stands, as representative of the middle month of summer. To be honest, I’m quite pleased with it, all things considered. On a hot, bright sunny day, everything looks wonderful, if not a little heat exhausted. Sit back and enjoy my garden like … Continue reading The Last Day of January
