Hydrangeas

My car is filled to the roof with over 200 glorious hydrangea heads, their stems stripped of leaves, ready to take to the Country Living Fair this week. This afternoon my husband pruned the Virginia creeper so that I can take the stems to the fair and twist them into a wreath base for my […]

Bulbs

Gardening

It is time to plant bulbs. Time also for the annual argument about the best planting method. I prefer to choose an area, dig it out to the required depth, scatter the bulbs, fix them in the soil and cover them up, planting out my wallflowers, hesperis and mysotis as I go. He prefers to […]