We always have our open day early April usually within the first two weeks of the month. Each year, we cross our fingers hoping that the Prunus x yedoensis 'Somei-Yoshino' will still be flowering for the open day but this year, unfortunately it hadn't even started...

Here I go again (no, not the Whitesnake song)....but combining music with gardening! Although this time there is a slight difference from what I normally do. Any of you who have had this misfortune of reading any of my previous posts, will have come across my 'Rock...

Cornus mas (Dogwood), one of the most stunning of all winter flowering shrubs. For me, this plant certainly has the X Factor, we are very lucky to have several in the gardens at Trinity and thankfully....no Louis Walsh's. It is a large shrub or small deciduous tree,...

If you haven't read the post 'Do Gardeners Hibernate', it might be best that you read that one first as this one may make a little more sense having read it .... not that any of my posts make any sense. Now officially, spring starts on the 20th March and us gardeners...

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 mentally...

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 not been...

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 and magical. If you do...