Monday 12 December 2011
Making our own gifts, Christmas cards and festive wreaths can add that bit more cheer to this time of the year. Recent workshops at The Garden House have included Book Binding with Nicola Jackson, Paper Collage with Jane Robbins, and...
Wednesday 7 December 2011
I rather like this month – the pressure is off! A bit of fireside gardening is lovely at this time of year – although it has still been very mild here in Brighton. Gardening in your head or on paper...
Monday 5 December 2011
The winter flowering Viburnum, Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn, is a real beauty and is a must for this time of year. It has pale pink tubular flowers with an exquisite fragrance and a really long flowering period. It belongs to the Caprifoliaceae family,...
Monday 28 November 2011
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn The greatest gift of the garden is the...
Sunday 20 November 2011
Another brilliant workshop at The Garden House last Saturday a small group of us settled in to enjoy a completely absorbing few hours learning the basic steps of book binding by making our own single section notebook and a multiple...
Sunday 13 November 2011
MARK THE DATE! Saturday 26 November, 12 5pm. Come and buy your Christmas presents while enjoying home-made food, lunches and teas, mulled wine and festive delights as well as carol singing. yummy Christmas breads, cakes and preserves beautiful plants, bulbs...
Thursday 10 November 2011
Dry shade is one of the most difficult parts of the garden – here at the Garden House we are always being asked for advice on plants that will tolerate this situation. All the plants that we are recommending come...
Friday 4 November 2011
As keen iPhone users we’ve been doing some research into just a few of the garden-related apps out there. There are literally thousands, most not that good, many US-centric, some are free though undoubtedly the better apps do cost. Below...
Friday 28 October 2011
All of us love gardening and our gardens, but are perhaps sometimes guilty of not actually enjoying our plants! And it’s usually all about time (or lack of) isn’t it? It’s hard enough to find a few hours every week to...
Monday 24 October 2011
If you are wondering what to do with your garden, are unable to identify your plants or have some ideas but are not sure how to go about achieving them, then why not consider a Garden House consultation? You will be able...
Saturday 15 October 2011
This has been a fantastic year for sweet peas, we’ve been picking them since the end of June and here we are in mid-October and there are still plenty left for a few bunches before we finally pull the plants...
Monday 10 October 2011
Autumn sowing is suitable for hardy annuals (plants which are sown and flower and die in one year). Some of these annuals can be sown directly in the ground, and will withstand most frosts. Others are not quite so robust – they can...