Each time I settle down to write a post here, I realise how important it is to get into the habit of photographing your own garden. I am building up quite an archive of plant portraits as I make my way through the Garden Photo Challenge I have set...
Ten Ideas for Photographing your Own Garden
Planning Ahead – Spring Bulbs
With the new catalogues dropping onto our doormats it’s time to think about what Spring Bulbs to plant. And in saying ‘Spring’ I am really talking of late Winter through to early Summer. Yes! It’s that time of year when we need to start planning for next Spring. Sorry?...
How to make a Bug Hotel – and why you need one
In planning our new garden layout I was keen to encourage beneficial wildlife and considered building some sort of Bug Hotel. A little while later my husband was working on a property where the owner was having a clear out. He spotted a terracotta object which he thought might...
How to make a Hypertufa Trough
Here at Dovewood we needed a plant container of a very specific size that wasn’t going to cost us an arm and a leg. I remembered Geoff Hamilton using a Hypertufa mix to make a planter. I did a little research and found his recipe in his book Gardeners...
East Lambrook Manor Gardens – the home of Margery Fish
Last month I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the garden created by Margery Fish at her home at East Lambrook Manor Gardens. Margery, and her husband Walter began the garden in 1937 and she continued to develop it after his death in 1947 . The creation of the...
100 days of the Garden Photo Challenge – and a Freebie!
In April this year I set myself a Garden Photo Challenge, to take a photo in my garden here at Dovewood in Dorset, every day for a year. Why? To prove that even a small garden can be interesting 365 days of the year. The task was and is...
Best book about gardening – ever!
Oooh! I am so excited to share with you what I consider to be the best book about gardening – ever! (PLEASE NOTE there are affiliate links within this post) Do I sound excited? I love, love, love this book and I hope you will too! I am talking...
Square Metre Gardening or SMG for short
I know I have touched briefly on this subject before when describing the set up of my own garden but the more I do it, the more I feel it is worthy to share! I will give a summary of the where, what, and how, here but you really...
Inspirational Gardening Quote no 7
In writing posts for Leaves From My Garden I have to be not only the ‘Journalist’ but the Editor, Photographer, Graphic Artist and Typesetter too! Don’t get me wrong I love it all but it does take time. I need to spend sometime in my garden today. Over the next...
10 Rainy Day Activities for Frustrated Gardeners
You’ve got the day all planned. No commitments. Yay! A whole day to garden and then……it rains. But fret not I have 10 Rainy Day Activities for frustrated Gardeners. All is not lost! Yes! There is always Housework to do but how about some “house-work” for the Garden for a change?...
