Well Spring is here….if it would only stop raining. My waterbutts are overflowing and have been emptied twice already over the winter. But following another mild winter everything is flowering early but nature is out of our hands… just gotta go with the flow. My grass could do with a high cut but it’s so…
Well as 2023 comes to an end….. what do I have planned for 2024?? I’ll mention my next NGS opening in my February blog #watchthisspace in the mean time….. The weather has a impact on how our gardens grow ever changing not just through the seasons but the unpredictability of what the seasons will bring.…
After a 3 year break and a pandemic behind us I opened my garden on Sunday 29th May 2022 for the National Garden Scheme Yorkshire…. Unsure who or how many would visit… but there was no need to wonder for very long as the visitors arrived…. First couple had travelled Wakefield and not visited before.…
Opening my garden for the National Garden Scheme. I bet your garden is ‘all done’ and ready for your National garden scheme open garden event people say to me. Those who ‘do’ their gardens know that gardens are never ‘finished’ the continue to grow and evolve every year. It’s 3 years since I last opened…
Well it’s been 3 years since I opened my garden for the National Garden Scheme. Haven’t our gardens been a life saver throughout the awful pandemic? I know some gardens were open last year 2021 on a prebooking system but I was not comfortable with that so enjoyed the solitude of my garden. But now…
I’m sure everyone is glad this year is nearing an end. Gardens have been a bit hit and miss this summer with the very cold April that put the gardens back a month and the mixed weather but never the less I’m sure we all enjoyed them the best we could. Autumn is certainly here…
Not quite sure what happened to January I must have hibernated but it was a very long month…… February ‘Fill Dyke’ has arrived and the snowdrops and helebores and starting to flower reminding us that the day are lengthening and spring is on its way. My Honey bees did arrive a couple of weeks are…
Wow January 2021 is here…. But things will be different this year. Due the ongoing #Covid19 pandemic I have cancelled my NGS open day which should have been going ahead at the end of May it has been postponed until 2022. But we must think positive at this difficult time and I have dusted off…
Well what an interesting year its been for us all and last month I was getting excited about my NGS open garden event next May. I filled in the entry form online but a few weeks later and after some serious thought I have decided to pull out. #Covid19 has scuppered lots of fundraising events…
Well what a strange and difficult summer it has been for everyone…. but hopefully we’ve all bee able to enjoy our gardens. I’ve certainly enjoyed pottering in mine. A lovely harvest of homegrown veg and bumper fruit crop. I’ve sent in the registration to open…