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Why did you choose to garden here? Well, it wasn’t quite like that. Sue came here with her late husband (also called Ian) when he was posted here by the Forestry Commission. In those days the house came with the job and most forestry workers lived where they worked. 1200 feet up a Welsh mountain isn’t probably the obvious choice for developing a garden! How long have you been here? Sue came… Read More
If you are planning to visit us on any of the Friday, Saturday or Sunday afternoons (2-6pm) in July, August and September, we are now open for bookings! Normally we would simply be open to anyone coming along, but in order to make things a bit safer in these uncertain times, we have decided to limit numbers on each day by asking people to pre-book. The booking service has been organised by… Read More
Well, everyone else seems to be doing it – there’s no ‘news’ in the newspapers at the moment – so I thought I’d treat you to some bits of 2018 that stood out for me. There’ll be a Part 2 coming hot on the heels of this one – 12 months all together is OK for ‘Fleet Street’ but they have a lot more brains than me (i.e. more people, not necessarily… Read More
Quite a lot actually. The hydro has 5 days to go in this quarter and it is already our highest single quarter of generation since we started in 2012. So in my book, that makes it the wettest quarter for 6 years and that doesn’t take into account all the additional rainwater that couldn’t fit into the turbine’s 3kWh limit. Look how much is ‘going to waste’ here! Sue has been manfully… Read More
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 whilst she did some film editing and looked at a property she was interested in. So we offered her the use of the garden room in return for making a short video for us. Sophie Windsor Clive, for that is her… Read More
August Bank Holiday and too busy to compose a blog – harvesting produce, trimming hedges, weeding paths, and enjoying the long-awaited sunshine and our visitors. Lots of lovely enthusiastic comments in our visitors’ book so they are obviously enjoying the garden too. Here’s just one from 2 visitors (thanks Pam and Chris) yesterday: ‘Absolutely enchanting. What a special place.” Here are some photos of the garden today to whet your appetite if… Read More
Yesterday was the annual Llanthony Valley & District Show and Sports. The weather wasn’t the greatest; wellies and 4x4s were the order of the day. In addition to the usual vegetable show classes, the Garden Club runs a number of classes for – for want of a better term – vegetables in the ground. This year there was really only one class which we felt was for us – Most Productive Vegetable… Read More
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 state that requires minimum attention whilst you’re away, and pray for rain so that all the plants you have sitting in pots awaiting your return to be planted out don’t need watering twice daily. No hosepipes or sprinklers here – extensive… Read More
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 experiences that our garden has to offer. The problem is that aforementioned management plan is in my head… So having been invited to host a visit on the 18th June for members of the Small Woods Association is an excellent prompt… Read More
Driven indoors by a sudden and dramatic thunderstorm, I am now making jam – a satisfying September-during-a-thunderstorm kind of activity. I should mention that jam-making is taking place on a wood-fuelled cooker so no worries about power cuts affecting the process. Plum jam this time. This follows successful batches of blackcurrant and blackcurrant-and-worcesterberry when those crops were harvested several weeks ago. I never make strawberry jam: it seems a crime not to… Read More
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