I think I must have a destructive streak because I always love this time of year in my small town garden in Lewes in Southern England. It is when I get out the secateurs and cut down all my clematis plants to…
There is a wonderful row of wisteria plants growing in a walled garden in my hometown of Lewes, England. Wisteria is beautiful with late Spring flowers and a perfume to rival anything in the plant kingdom but some people complain…
If you like growing tulips then November is a bit like Christmas. it is the time when exciting brown boxes arrive with the post with that excellent label: Perishable Plant Material. I still get a thrill out of opening parcels…
On the cover of their “tribute” EP to The Beatles, that 80s Californian band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers revisited the famous Zebra Crossing and did adventurous things with their socks. I was never quite sure about why they chose…
Here in my garden in Lewes, England, I can feel the first hints of a change in temperature as the wind direction shifts and some sobering Eastern cold air comes in to hurry along the autumn. As the season changes…
After a miserably wet weekend here in Lewes, England, the sun is almost shining and, so far, there has been no rain. After the demise of my gladioli under the weight of water, see yesterday’s blog, at least that weirdly…
I know it looks pretty enough out there in my garden here in Lewes in England but I am not happy about it. It has been a difficult year for gardening in these parts. I set out, back there in…
Just in case any of my readers thought I was exaggerating the other day about my early morning martial arts practice being taken over by the very friendly new cat on the block. Here is photograpic evidence from this morning’s…
Well, I sacrificed the bullock and did some pagan rituals with my neighbours, so I am hoping that Sun God Apollo will do his part of the bargain here in southern England. I did some research into naked orgies and…
There was some harvesting to do this weekend, a small crop of peas fattened up in their pods even though I was only growing a few plants in an experimental spirit and they got willfully entangled in with my new…