We have been producing our Newsletter for just over two years now, but have to date only sent it out to our loyal band of newsletter followers. To celebrate the new...
Category: Newsletters, Sue's Musings Tags: newsletter
You’ve seen the pictures, you’ve read the blog, now you can hear all about it from the Head Gardener herself. A wonderful new app called Candide features audio tours of many...
Category: Sue's Musings, What's New Tags: audiotour, candidegardening, gardentour
Gardens can be colourful and full of flowers OR highly productive vegetable gardens but not particularly colourful or flowery. Right? Actually they can be both and the humble pea is a good example...
Category: Sue's Musings, What's New Tags: mangetout, Organic vegetables, peas, potager, seed sowing
There’s tidy! “There’s tidy” around here in Wales means something that has got someone’s seal of approval, for example, ‘there’s a tidy-sized marrow you’ve grown there boyo’…but in this article I’m...
Category: Sue's Musings Tags: badger, dahlias, hedges, overwinter, tidy, tulips, untidy, winter garden
Vegetables need to be grown evenly spaced in straight rows surrounded by bare soil. Some gardeners feel the need to lavish them with chemicals to make them grow bigger and spray...
Category: Sue's Musings
We’ve opened our garden to the public for a number of years now. In 2017 we were invited to open with other gardens for the Gardens in the Wild Festival –...
We were very lucky last week to have a wonderful documentary film-maker staying with us. By some sort of serendipity she phoned us looking for somewhere to stay in the area...
Taking a week’s holiday at the end of April really focuses the mind of a gardener. You have to be up to speed before you go, leave the garden in a...
Category: Sue's Musings Tags: allium, bees, Open Garden, pollinators, poppies, weather
Did you know that 7 – 13th May 2017 is International Compost Awareness Week? Neither did I. We are pretty much aware of the importance of compost to the garden at...
We do have a woodland management plan for our 3.5 acres of forest which, as those who have visited know, is a very special part of the mix of habitats and...
Category: Sue's Musings Tags: Fungi, management plan, Open Garden, Small Woods Association, Sustainable living, trees, woodland
Nant y Bedd