The Real Cut Flower Garden

04/05/2024

And so it begins. I hope it will look very different next year. So far I have dug out huge quantities of bamboo, planted 13 trees including the rare and wonderful hornbeam Rockhampton Red and made a plan. The house is upside down with downstairs upstairs. The garden will be upside down with a bit of grass at the bottom and a huge sweep of grasses and wild chums sweeping down from top left to centre and a narrow path dividing it from a massive bed of perennials. There will be a walkway structure to the left of the main beds and on the left will be rattled grass, spring bulbs and iris below new trees. Now I just need to take a few deep breaths!

25/04/2024

So many thanks to and for such beautiful photos of my much loved old garden. I have discovered a lot of people in my new village are GI readers! Soon I shall have to take a deep breath and post what I am planning here…..

24/04/2024

End of the day from my messy desk…. The architect kept telling me I should ditch the Crittalls in favour of all singing and dancing triple glazed aluminium composite numbers. I’m not intending to follow his advice.

19/04/2024

Watching the sun come in over the valley at 5.45 this morning.

17/04/2024

St George’s mushrooms and wild garlic. Both in abundance here

30/03/2024

Thankyou for feature on me and my old garden before it became the domain of . I just wish I’d washed my face, brushed my hair and ironed my shirt but the garden was always beautiful

14/03/2024

The joy of a new collar? Be glad you are all upwind of her….
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11/03/2024

I had to collect one old shrub rose from the old field. This wonderful man had helped in the gardens for over 30 years and kindly came to add the required muscle. It was very hard work and the resulting rose just fitted in the car when bound tightly….. I hope it will like its new home. I would like to have dug up some of the other old shrubs but neither had the energy or the will at the end. There are some beauties still there, and some other wonders. All could be yours when the 10 acre field is sold in May. If you fancy a piece of beautiful Dorset adjoining my old garden message me and I’ll send you sale details

02/03/2024

Such beautiful morning light. Lovely to be back here for a few days

25/02/2024

Yesterday I was given some beautiful rhubarb plants. It has only taken me eight hours to remove ivy and sedges and sort out a home for them……

17/02/2024

…and my biggest challenge is not to comment! Delights that is so enjoying his new my old garden, and wryly smilng at some expert advice. They may be right. Or the ex owner might be. Th important thing is to enjoy the adventure!

16/02/2024

Even the dog agreed it was time for some clearing to let the light in

01/02/2024

Good year for here

22/01/2024

Impossible to resist watching and pals discussing exciting plans for his new /my old garden…. I’ll leave justification for the now totally tatty clematis sweet pea rose and vine covered rebar arch (!) but in response to questions from and whether the wild flower strips in the main lawn even worked here are a couple of snaps in June and July….. then there is the orchid filled wild garden and the yellow rattled and wild flower orchard. But they have all required a certain maintenance regime, it will be so interesting to see what appears this year!

12/12/2023

Delighted to be picking up 4 of theses beautiful rare craetagus tomorrow. It was one of the trees I was saddest to leave behind in what is now lucky ‘s garden

24/11/2023

Rather delighted so far with

12/11/2023

Ever changing borrowed background for my new garden….. I’ve moved inland, leaving the sea for the woodlands and commons for now. Definitely a major change of landscape.

24/10/2023

Beautiful blur light this morning

02/10/2023

flowers

01/10/2023

27/09/2023

Remembering this time last year, generous hoops of hops and crabapples

16/09/2023

…and it’s a wrap! The final garden bouquets head off to the final charming wedding. I can’t imagine how many thousands havw come before them, how many sprigs if myrtle have been picked for every brides bouquet, how many blooms…. There will be no more! New adventures beckon!

25/08/2023

I am dreaming of a building project and remembering the last extension I had built, inspired by working with West Coast American eco architects…… I may not be quite as bold next time… or perhaps?

17/08/2023

Cornish Gilliflower. Possibly my favouritest flavouriest apples in the whole

13/08/2023

Agapanthus, anemones, and….. photobombing by green woodpecker