What a month of contradictions October is. My breath drifted ahead of me on my morning stroll to let the chickens out and I left a trail of smudged footprints in the heavy dew on the lawn. Yet by mid afternoon the sun was strong enough to have me stripped to a t-shirt, sweating over […]
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 […]
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 […]