in the garden

My interest started with a visit to a family friend’s garden with my Mum and my mother exclaimed at how beautiful the Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ was which triggered my emotional tie to the flowers.

Dean fills bags with wood chipping which can be used as mulch for pathways and other uses…

Becky interviews Eloise, a volunteer at the nursery, and she talks about her complete change of direction - from accountancy to garden design!

Becky demonstrates how to divide an Alpine strawberry to go into her new strawberry pot…

It was so hot in mid July it was a struggle for everyone including the plants. Here you get a taste of what we were up against...

Cutting back Iris after flowering demonstration by Becky

Here's a magical story, of a wonderful surprise arrangement, I believe with a little help from above…

Old palette wood came in handy, Dean decided to re-purpose some and make a picket fence to tidy up the fence around the nursery.

‘Is that your Plum Tree Becky that we saw in your blog posts last year?’ I asked

We went to visit Becky and Neil in Bristol their beautiful home and the boys were able to spend time with Connie.

Again, just for fun, I put the stem in a pot with other basil plants on my kitchen window sill. Then it started to shoot!

I can’t forget it is a wild rose when I am plucking the beautiful bullet shaped, bright Coquelicot, shiny-red hips from it

I have a very unique garden, which is on the cliff, facing Penzance harbour and St Michael’s Mount.

Quite often when I have surrendered to such times, they unfold in the most beautiful and unexpected ways, unimaginable to me, a mere mortal. This reminds me of the wonderful ways of nature.

…But today is as fine an April day as can be. The sky is a keen blue, the air is fresh, and the sun is heavily encouraging the temperatures to finally and firmly commit to Spring.

Whilst I’m here, I’d also like to mention that our writers and contributors are creating beautiful things for us to share with you. We have some new people who have joined this year

We hope you will continue to enjoy what you see. The only reasons we do it are to share some good news, traditions and values and bring joy to the world.

Meet “Royal Doves” Victor and Iris

So we brought the large colander full of small purple grapes into the kitchen after my son Trinley and I had tasted a couple - just about sour turning to sweet - perfect!

It turned out dad's beans, onions and tomatoes had come along so well and they'd been munching their way through beautiful homegrown produce!

I bought three grape plants from a garden centre here in the UK, a few years ago now, as they were reduced to £3 each

My mum’s lovely neighbour Pam popped over to visit mum, and I mentioned Carry Forth Tradition, which she loved. Pam went on to tell me about her Grandma’s Rose Water and how she suddenly realised there is no better cream for her skin.

I grew up in a beautiful old house on a road named Elder Road in Bramley, Leeds.

I wanted to write about my mini-lily pond because it is a mini-miracle.

Hi everyone, I hope that life is treating you well in these difficult times…here’s a short film of the garden for you to enjoy. I shot it on the Summer Solstice

Mum told me each morning the Rock Rose has fresh flowers and each evening it loses it's flowers. I went out at intervals to film the flowers blooming and then their petals falling until at dusk

I thought you may like to see a short film of some of the garden. The Garden has all been planted by myself over the 21 years that I have been in the house all from scratch and has a life of its own!