May is when my garden really starts gowing and blooming and this year thanks to all the Forget me nots I have a full border. I seem to have a garden full of mauve, yellow and purple flowers. Not a white or red bloom to be seen. The Wallflower ‘Bowles Mauve’, Aquileja and Geranium ‘Bill […]
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10 Simple Steps to Creating a Bee Friendly Garden
A bee friendly garden is a family friendly garden. How so you may say? Well it is estimated that 78% of flowering plants rely on bees and other insects to reproduce. Worldwide, of the 100 crop species that provide 90% of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees. A world without bees will […]
My Top 10 Slug and Snail Resistent Plants
Be careful with that caterpillar, don’t step on that worm, and watch that spider, are all phrases you’ll hear me say to my son. Like most parents I’m trying to teach him to value life and how to look after the wildlife and bugs in our garden. However when it comes to slugs and […]
Floral Friday – Family Friendly Shrubs – Lavatera
I have always loved Lavateras with their attractive and showy pink flowers. If you have a large garden and want a summer flowering shrub then this is the plant for you. Its common name is Mallow. If you do not have space for a 1.5 to 2 m shrub then there are now a number […]
Floral Friday – Family Friendly Shrubs – Lavatera
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Floral Friday: Cosmos – Family Friendly Plants
The Cosmos is the sort of flower that you may have seen in other people’s gardens and thought I would love to have that displaying in my garden. It’s a lovely statuesque cottage garden flower, usually with very pretty pastel colours and feathery leaves. It is rather magical for toddlers as it grows to just […]
Floral Friday – Michaelmas Daisy – Family Friendly Plants
Bee on Aster A good late summer performer for the garden is the Aster or Michaelmas Daisy. So called because it has daisy-like flowers from pink, purple to blue and it flowers at the time of Michaelmas, on 29 September when in parts of Europe remember Archangel Michael. Its reliability and hardiness help to make […]
Floral Friday – Aquilegia – Family Friendly Plants
Aquilegia If you know this flower, other names for it are Columbine and Grandma Bonnets; you may be saying what so family friendly about it? It is a cottage garden plant with thin stems holding up the very pretty flower heads which could easily get knocked by a ball or trampled upon. I say yes […]
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