The Dark Side of the Garden.

From a very young age I knew gardening was for me. Although at that stage in my life, I hadn’t realised that gardening would be a constant battle, both within the garden and with myself. It is battle that you do not always win. It can be both physically and...

The Gardeners Rules and Regulations.

Rules? Aren’t they there to be broken? No, sorry I can’t say that any more, not in my position. Even though certain garden practises can be. On the odd occasion when I have looked up something on-line (especially on-line), in a book or a magazine and have...

Snow!

This year I didn’t want it …. but it came anyway. It didn’t take too long though, for me to adventure out too take some photo’s, because whatever your views are on the subject, you have to admit … that everywhere looks pretty in the snow...

The Tattooed Garden.

“A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye.  As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.”  ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno Apart from music, my two other interests...

The year ahead.

Christmas has been and gone, the new year is now here, there is doom and gloom everywhere on the news and many of us are feeling the post Christmas blues. To top it off, since the Christmas festivities we have seen very little of the sun. So I thought I would do a...

2012 – The end of the…..

Drought!! The only thing that ended this year, was the prolonged spell of dry conditions, that had affected many of us in the UK since March 2010. We had very little rain between 2010 and June 2012, with only the odd wet spell that amounted to very little; including...