Tuesday 23 October 2012
One of our favourite cooks and foodie author is Nigel Slater, he of The Kitchen Diaries, Tender, Real Fast Cooking and his wonderful biography Toast: The Story of a Boys Hunger. This recipe is an easy fail-safe supper or lunch...
Sunday 14 October 2012
Is it possible to have too many watering cans? I have been looking for the perfect watering can for years and here it is! It’s simple bright green and plastic (above) – certainly not the most attractive, but so far...
Friday 12 October 2012
With the rain pattering (what’s new?) on the roof of the Garden House, Ed Ikin described “green gardening” at Nymans, the National Trust garden he heads near Handcross, West Sussex. Many of the methods he has established to ensure as...
Wednesday 3 October 2012
Our suggestion this month is the wonderful Helianthus Lemon Queen of the Asteraceae family, and common named the ‘perennial sunflower’. It is one of those plants that never fails to lift the spirits, and is irresistible to butterflies! Reassuringly it...
Monday 1 October 2012
One of our very favourite gardens Great Dixter is holding its annual Plant Fair next weekend, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October. This is a particularly special event as it includes some European nurseries that one wouldnt normally see over...
Friday 28 September 2012
Last Saturday’s ‘Domestic Bliss’ textile print workshop with local designer and maker Kate Strachan was a great success. The day was sunny and bright – always a good start! – and the students keen to roll up their sleeves and...
Monday 24 September 2012
Heading out in The Garden House garden last Saturday – the last deliciously sunny day for a while I suspect – we were struck by just how much dramatic and fiery autumn colour remains to be picked and enjoyed. The...
Saturday 15 September 2012
Pelargoniums are native to South Africa and are tender perennials – in other words, they need to be kept frost free over winter. Some of the more common bedding varieties do sometimes survive outside but the rarer types tend to...
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Having recently spent the day at the Sussex Prairie Garden plant fair and seen some fabulous plants there, I thought I should tell you about one of our favourites – Stipa gigantea – the giant oat grass. We find it...
Saturday 8 September 2012
Last Sunday the wonderful Paul and Pauline McBride invited over 60 specialist nurseries, artists and makers to set up their stalls dotted in and around the vast perennial beds that make up the Sussex Prairies landscape. On the left, Bridgette...
Monday 3 September 2012
September by Ted Hughes We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: No clock counts this. When kisses are repeated and the arms hold There is no telling where time is. It is midsummer: the leaves hang big and...
Friday 24 August 2012
Well worth a visit – on Sunday 2 September 2011 (from 11am until 5pm) a rare collection of exciting nurseries, artists and crafts people will be coming together at the Sussex Prairies Garden. This wonderful day out offers a great chance to...