The wind’s whipping around the back of the house. Every time I step out of the door it rains…and I mean biblical torrents. I have a ‘to do’ list which looks like a queue for the latest Banksy exhibition and my PC is throwing a strop worthy of Violet Elizabeth Bott. Hence the messy looking [...]
Archive for the ‘feel-good plants’ Category
Reasons to be cheerful
Posted in drinks, feel-good plants, pantry, tagged elderberry cordial, foraging, Higgledy Garden, how to grow the tallest sunflowers, how to make a sunflower den, sunflowers on September 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A potted history of lavender
Posted in feel-good plants, herb garden, medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, tagged lavender, sleep pillows on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on a mission. One of the schools where I work wants to run a project to get the whole school gardening this year and because of the inevitable constraints of time and money I have decided to link this in with their history studies. Dreams of designing Dig For Victory allotments and Victorian Walled Gardens briefly floated through [...]
Sweet peas, the great shed debate and living the Regency life.
Posted in cutting garden, feel-good plants, tagged Aled Jones, Jane Austen, Sarah Raven, sheds, Stourhead, sweet peas on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes. It is over a month since my last post. Despite living almost entirely in a parallel Jane Austen universe, (courtesy of a return to my directing roots) I have manged to achieve a moderate amount on the plot. Much as I would like to create the impression that work on the plot is continuous and organised, like most things [...]
Snowdrops, eucalyptus and the end of Winter.
Posted in feasts and festivals, feel-good plants, food for the soul, tagged Candlemas, signs of Spring on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another fight. If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain, Winter will not come again. Happy Candlemas Day everyone and happy birthday to this blog, for I have been writing it for a whole year. This time last year I was snuggled up in the kitchen making [...]
Echinacea
Posted in cutting garden, feel-good plants, medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, tagged echinacea on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are some plants that should be in every garden. They are real ‘feel good’ plants which really earn their place, beautiful to look at,useful and relatively easy to look after. Echinacea is one of those. This one is echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower), a great cut flower which doesn’t really need to be dead headed, [...]
