The great English heatwave continues and my small garden in Lewes, UK, is positively fizzling in the sunshine – this morning those flagstones were actually hot under foot when I was doing my kung-fu patterns. It was like it all weekend too.…
Hey, a sunny weekend in Lewes, UK – it almost convinces me that we might have a bit of Summer in this country this year. I don’t feel quite so bad now about returning from Italy. I daren’t look at…
There’s a rather sad-looking terracotta pot outside my back door. It was supposed to have been filled with the dramatic reds and yellows of my tulip bulbs, Flaming Parrot. It was the slugs that did it. Last year was slug…
Well, OK, it rained and it was necessary to look where I sat if I wanted to spend some time in the sunshine that followed on after this shower. It was worth it though. Nothing like raindrops on blossom petals…
It’s apple blossom time in my Lewes garden and the competition is open, folks, for which is the most of all the spring blossoms. It might just have to be apple blossom, I think with it’s many shades of pink…
Poetry writing day today. I’ve got all the equipment ready. Now all I have to do is decide if I should take it outside into the garden. Hmm.
I dead-head my last daffodil just as my tulips brought a new colour scheme into my small Lewes courtyard garden. Here is ‘Ballerina’ with her fiery elegance and bold vertical lines. They mix well with the blue of the grape…
Fritillaria meleagris, the snake’s head fritillary, is, most people claim, indigenous to the United Kingdom and was abundant in the days before we ploughed up most of our meadowland. I have always tried to grow them as, well, they’re wonderfully exotic for…
I was away from home most of last week because of a family crisis and, sorry readers, had to take leave from this blog too for a few days. I returned though to a warm welcome of blue and yellow…
In spite of the freezing temperatures over the last week, my Spring bulbs have grouped together in the spirit of Easter. Now that my garden feels like it’s getting going, I feel much better too.