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Tulip 'Orange Emperor' - bulbs

Tulip 'Orange Emperor' - bulbs

Must remember in the Autumn I want pots of Orange Tulips.  Wish list from The Sarah Raven website.

Converting a pond, re homing the wildlife

In the process of a small project,  converting an unwanted pond as the owners have two small children.  The wildlife have been re homed and the sides of the pond have been punctured to slowly release the water.  This will hopefully leave enough water at the bottom for all the new bog planting. James my Landscape brother in law,  traveled with slopping  buckets of frogspawn to give the babies a lovely new home.

Ammi Majus (Bishop's Flower) Seeds - 500 for £1.95

Ammi Majus (Bishop's Flower) Seeds - 500 for £1.95

ordered and cant wait.............From Sarah Raven.....Buy 10 packets of a delicious concoction and get one packet free... Sarah Raven has really kick started the country into planting for Bees..

A Bees Buffet

This small area I have planted is on the way to looking full and lush.... a little more sunshine would help.  Its a Bees buffet.




The next raised bed is under construction. Ordered a gorgeous mix of seeds from ' Sarah Raven' yesterday.  Buy 10 packets and you get one free.

Off on Saturday to the 'Hardy Plants Society' a horticultural event held for gardeners and plant lovers for a 'Passionate about Plants' day,  speakers are Andy Sturgeon, Fergus Garrett and Val Bourne imparting their wisdom and humour, could be helpful with a hosepipe ban underway and still freezing cold nights. 

Sweet Peas for summer by Laetitia Maklouf

I ordered this on amazon after reading bits from the 'You magazine'  simply because the sub title 'how to create a garden in a year'.  Having sold my little house, where in the courtyard garden I had collected and been given plants , everything I could get my hands on over five years,  by the time I left it was perfect ........ just a hap hazard romp of climbers huge pots and Box balls.  I loved it,  the children of course hated it,not only did they have a small garden but pots everywhere.  Now having moved into a rented house with a big corner plot of 'Lawn'  they love it.  My first thoughts were to keep life simple, and anyway its not really mine and who knows how long I will live here, I shall have a minimalist garden and less hassle'.  Well I have now just dug and retained a flower border the pots are coming in thick and fast and the climbers are getting that lovely frothy look.... and the sweet peas and runner beans are just popping up. So much for that,  so of course this book just had to be ordered.

 Its a simple,  plant lovers story of making her garden.  Its soothing and simple and I have loved and hung on Laetitia's every word. The photography is gorgeous and the odd recipe to enjoy the things you have grown are enticing.  So for anyone who just loves the simple pleasures of gardening and growing,  its a must.  Having turned the book over I have just realised Laetitia Maklouf went to 'The English Gardening School' like myself.