One of the joys of “open gardening” is reading the comments afterwards in the Visitors Book. Here’s a sample from Sunday: What an absolute pleasure. Every turn reveals yet another surprise even...
The weather forecasts kept us on tenterhooks all week before our latest Open Garden day, in fact right up until the 11.00 opening time it could have gone one way or...
Yes, strange though it may seem Ian was spotted wearing a rather natty summer suit last week. The reason was what could be described as ‘The Heir meets The Hairy’. Confused?...
Every time we open, and we’re on our 7th year for the NGS, we ask visitors to write a few thoughts in our visitors book. Invariably they are lovely comments, uplifting...
A somewhat different blog today. A week ago we were woken at night by a dog barking outside. In the morning we were greeted by the owner of the bark, who...
It’s been a while since we added anything to the blog, but that’s because we’ve been so busy getting ready for the first Open Day in just two weeks time (Sunday...
One of the first things people would see when looking at our house was the huge tree just to the left and behind the house – it tended to dominate the...
Gosh, is it really November since we last posted a story? It’s been really busy here over the last few months and Sue has a pile of “blog ideas” but “no...
We told the story behind how we came to be in SAGA magazine earlier in the year. If you read it then you may enjoy the greater detail here as well as...
After a wait of six years since planting, one of our more unusual plants has yielded its first harvest. Tucked away in the middle of the circular bed by the copper...