SILVER TREES

As things perk up in the garden (and please we do need a bit more warmth), it is so lovely to see plants come back year after year. It...

We are so lucky to have so many different birds living in our garden. We have noticed some robins being very busy in and out of the rose...

It is heartwarming to look out in the garden and see the bright colours of our varying tulips. We have added a few new ones this year so...

I love the fact that there are often stories attached to plants, flowers and bulbs in our garden. This sweet dog tooth violet reminded me...

Spring is such a wonderful time of the year to see all the new plants poke their heads up and offer us joy (and the hope of a bumper crop...

The lovely white hedgerow blossom of the blackthorn is becoming more visible this month, but the blossom I am most looking forward to is...

When the sun comes out I think it lifts all our spirits. I certainly love the effect it has on the garden, with flowers and blossom...

Who doesn't love a special parcel turning up? I loved opening this box of goodies I had ordered online several months ago. I must admit...

These lovely flowers are beginning to pop up around the garden. They are not always the prettiest of plants with the winter leaves...

There is nothing like the bright yellow of a bunch of daffodils sitting in the sun to lift the mood! These are my first bunch of the...

On grey, wet, wintery days it is lovely to hear a gentle tinkling of a wind chime to bring a smile to my face. Last year we had a great...

Who loves to cook with fresh herbs? I do! We have a lovely herb garden which includes a couple of small bay trees. Bay is great used in...

Now that a lot of colour and most of the flowers have died down on the garden, it is so lovely to see this pretty chrysanthemum bright...

So last spring the garden was gorgeous with tulips, daffodils and the like. We noticed though that there weren't as many tulips coming...

This year we have had a great crop of chillies. We have grown them from seed and it was a variety we have eaten as tapas when green, but...

Our dahlias this summer have been wonderful. They weren’t favourites until I was given a Sarah Raven gardening catalogue once with the...

I love terracotta pots. A prized possession of ours is a lovely urn, which we bought with wedding present money. It does have a nasty...

Our tulips were gorgeous this year. They seemed to be better than ever, perhaps this had something to do with the strange times we were...

I am so looking forward to making something with these beautiful little crabapples. A lovely friend and her children picked them for me...

Now we love eating olives in this house. They can be plain, black or green but I think our favourite is with juicy sun ripened tomatoes...