The Joy of Succulents
Well, it’s frosty outside and the sun is shining and you probably want me to write about snowdrops. There’s a lot of snowdrop waffle at this time of year, (I’ve done it myself) totally ignoring the freezing cold out there and the requirement to bend to see them. No, I...
Messy with good bits
So, it’s good to be dogmatic and do the ‘put your garden to bed’ thing (, or equally, leave it all for the hoar frost (which never comes) – or the wee beasties who prefer it standing. (which are?)
But really, it’s rather more complicated.
Box Blight: another hedge goes.
If you look carefully at this wonderfully out of focus photo you can see the blight. We have fought it for years. All over the garden. And we have been removing it from all over the garden. This year, after a drought, we got much pouring rain and the worst blight we had ever seen.
My favourite plant right now.
I still love these two flowers together though. Maybe proving (rightly) that I know nothing of colour in gardens and understand even less.
Gifting the Ephemeral.
Knowing we won’t live forever, (we have not had a nasty diagnosis) we’re thinking about what will happen to the house and garden when we die.
Weeds I Want
I am deciding which weeds I will choose to live with.
Words and Things in Gardens
’m not sure why I originally wanted to make a garden. I started with a need to grow things, which grew and grew until I needed to leave London to find more garden space in the country
Alison’s Visit to Veddw : Part Two
Here is the second part of Alison’s walk through the garden.
It’s still raining.
Alison’s Visit to Veddw, Part One.
I invited a friend to walk the garden and give her responses on the way. Alison agreed and recorded her visit.
To the Woods!
So after some rather futile years, losing as much as we planted, we made a radical decision: to keep the big old trees, which appear able to weather the wildlife.
Droning on…
Drone pictures are wonderfully versatile. They are not simply pictures from above but may give views of a garden from a variety of places.
A poem
In September friends of ours brought one of their tours to our garden. And one of their group, Vicki Scott, was, amazingly, inspired to write a poem about the garden. And here it is!
Garden photography – a form of worship?
I get my camera out. I know photography has a bad press……
Veddw in The Garden, by Chris Young
This was published in the RHS ‘The Garden’ and written by the then editor, Chris Young, in December 2012. A long time ago. It’s a good piece and when I found it again recently I realised I wanted it here
Good things, especially Japanese Anemones
Here’s a celebration just of one flower, which is a total delight just now. Just for pleasure
How are the Disasters coming along?
Those of you kind enough to take an interest in Veddw Trials and Tribulations will no doubt have been having sleepless nights…
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