It’s hard to know where to start when I’ve not updated the blog for three weeks. On Sunday we closed the garden and nursery for the winter – always a moment of mixed emotions. The place softens at the edges when we aren’t open as we don’t trouble with appearances so much, and a stillness […]
My RHS Diploma practical results are due any day and I must be subconsciously more jittery about it than I’m prepared to admit. Last night I dreamt I’d got the results through and though I’d scraped a pass, I got 0/100 on one of the papers – not one I remembered sitting. One question was […]
Two RHS Diploma exams in two days have left my head spinning with ecosystems, business finance, garden restoration and hard landscaping techniques. All good stuff, but a lot to cram into consecutive days. With the academic stuff out of the way, it’s boots back on tomorrow and getting stuck into digging over the proposed new […]
I’ve been away since Monday, filming the Gardener of the Decade competition at the Eden Project. No more on that of course for now – it’s scheduled for broadcast on the 12th December. But while I’ve been away autumn has sneaked in. A cool mist trailed over the garden this morning, pulling the spiders webs […]