When I moved in I inherited a very tall tree-like pittosporum, in the centre behind the table in the picture below. before (2008) - does...

It's raining, so gardening is on hold at the moment.  That's not all bad as it's given me time to catch up with work for The Tre...

As I've said before I love clematis (and roses).  At the last count I had over 30 (of each - I know I must stop buying them!) but as of ...

When I asked my neighbour "Can you hear a donkey in the distance?" she looked at me with a slightly worried expression as though I...

I would really like to be a tidy person, but naturally I'm not!  I try to keep things put away and filed correctly, but piles of papers ...

Today my waterlily opened.  Back in April I blogged about how I was hoping to avoid the thick green soup type of pond water and had bought ...

I have several hemerocallis in my garden.  This one I bought many years ago and planted it in an "ali baba" type pot.  I'll ne...