Day 25 Wild Flowers There is a beautiful planting of wild flowers right in the centre of Esher and today I have gone to have a closer look at them. They are essentially located on a traffic island and can be easily seen as you drive through Esher. They certainly give me […]
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30 Days Wild. Days 19 to 21. House Martens, Dog Roses, and Ripening Strawberries
Day 19 House Martens Every year we have house martens nesting in the eaves of the house. Usually both at the back and front and sometimes with a double nest like a double decker. The one at the back of the house fell down last year so I was really pleased to see them starting […]
30 Days Wild. Days 13- 15. Sound, Wild Flowers in Central London & Flower Colour Treasure Hunt
We have been concentrating on the garden over the last couple of days although the wet weather has prevented us from undertaking much actual gardening. Day 13 Sound Map of the Garden It’s years since we last created a sound map of the garden. One afternoon about 5.00 pm we just closed our eyes, […]
The RHS Wisley Flower Show
Welcome to this year’s RHS Wisley Flower Show 2015. The Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows are well known national events. You know you will see original gardens, pick up great ideas and have the opportunity to indulge in some fantastic horticultural-related retail therapy. The more recently established RHS Wisley Flower Show is a slightly different and […]
Our Summer Holiday Bucket List
If you are like me you’ll have a long mental list of activities for the school summer holidays. I often see some great ideas on other people’s blogs and I squirrel them away for the long summer. However just like the squirrel forgetting where he has buried his nuts those bookmarks get well and truly […]
My Garden in November
We are definitely at the end of the flowering season in my garden. It’s all looking a bit tatty and floppy. There has not been a frost yet, but plenty of rain has fallen, so today there are photos speckled full of those dewy drops. The flowering season seems also to be a bit […]
Willow Dens and Flower Meadows: Reaping the Benefits
We have tried something different in the garden this year. It has been really fun creating it and watching how things develop. We moved some fruit bushes freeing up a sunny plot of land about 10ft square. Rather than go for some of the obvious choices of perennial plants and shrubs or vegetables we thought we […]
My Garden In August
The stars of my garden this month have to be the Echinacea. They are so showy and statuesque. I am loving the fact that when they attract bees the bees seem to stay on them for so long. They must really love their nectar. We had a very heavy prolonged shower early in the wee […]
My Garden In July
This July has been has hard for the flowers in my garden and I think probably for a lot of gardens in the UK. They were baked and scorched by temperatures of over 30 degrees. Now at the end of the month heavy summer rain is giving them a good battering. My hostas are suffering […]
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 […]
The Day We Sowed Wild Flowers
A couple of weeks ago I posted about planting our Willow Wigwam and I am pleased to report that it has already started to sprout. I can now reveal that around the wigwam we plan to have an annual wild flower meadow and we spent Sunday preparing the ground and sowing this. I wanted […]
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: 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 – Chives – What to plant with your Kids
Chives It is its versatility that makes chives such a great plant to grow with your kids. It is of course a culinary herb and part of the onion family, but its flowers are beautiful – a delicate ball of pinky, purple. The child and family friendly properties of the chive plant Allium Schoenoprasum include […]
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