My goodness, it’s been too long since I participated in Cathy’s nice meme at Rambling in the Garden! My cut flowers this year got off to the very best start ever – all growing so beautifully in the greenhouse during late April and first part of May. I put it down to using different compost … Continue reading In a vase on Monday. 29 August 2022
Just an attempt to get back into the swing of things a bit, after a very long blogging break. April was dryish, but not nearly as dry as late March/April last year when we went over 41 days without rain. Now we are having wonderful rain, regularly. A real pleasure since I’ve just planted a … Continue reading Six on Saturday, 8 May 2021
I’m calling this vase my ‘late summer harvest’, because it sums up what’s been happening here for the last month. There are three types of harvest in the pictures. The first is obviously the flowers. I used zinnias ‘Purple Prince’, ‘Benary’s Giant Lime’, ‘Queeny Red Lime’ and ‘Deep Zinnia Mix’, all from Sarah Raven. Sadly … Continue reading In a vase on Monday. 28.09.20
I’ve found that, amongst the shrub roses that I grow, ‘Queen of Sweden’ is the most useful for arranging in a vase because the stems are nice and long. I’ve struggled for a while to get good germination on seed of Sweet William, but I’ve always remembered how well it did in our garden in … Continue reading In a Vase on Monday. 18 May 2020
As you all have probably gathered, I’m not too hot on the flowering arranging (lack of patience, mainly). But I do love the flowers and the photos (and the blogging friends involved in this meme). I was out in the garden this afternoon and happened to notice that ‘Crown Princess Margareta’ had more flowers than … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
This is kind of an ‘hello’, ‘I’m still here’ vase, rather than a proper post! The Bon Viveur is home at the moment (until Wednesday), and so there’s little time, but a desire nonetheless to pick flowers. These were for our dinner table on Friday night. Still looking lovely on a misty, first day of … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
I have a bit of a secret passion for Hybrid Tea roses – this isn’t very trendy at the moment, but I’ve never been ‘cool’; I just can’t help it! I love their perfectly shaped flowers when in bud and half open. I grow so many old-fashioned roses, but they never quite do that bud-perfection … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
My goodness, doesn’t failure excelerate the rate at which we learn? The top half of the Hornbeam Gardens, where the cut flowers are, is doing just fine because they are treated like vegetables and watered regularly. But the lower Hornbeam Gardens have not at all lived up to the picture I had for them in … Continue reading September musings 2
Long time, once again, no vase! Grand plans to post more in August never materialised. But hey, a new month, new efforts called for! And new, seasonal, things to love. One of the things I’m liking most at the moment is Dahlia ‘Café au Lait’. It has massive dinner-plate flowers (not usually my kind of … Continue reading In a vase on Monday
The greenhouse has been a terrific success for the tomatoes, sweet peppers and chilli peppers. I was worried that it would be too hot, but the Coolaroo shading the Bon Viveur put up in May seems to have worked well, even though the south side and the roof have not yet been shaded. It’s … Continue reading Greenhouse & end of month view
Garden Dreaming at Châtillon 