I started to write this post back in early summer of this year, saved it in the draft section and then forgot all about it. I was going to leave posting it until next year when it is flowering again but thought no, so here's a right little beauty that not everyone...

This is post one hundred on 'the tattooed gardener' blog! Doesn't time fly when your having fun, or in my case..... writing rubbish? The good/bad news is, I still have loads more rubbish left to write about.... so be warned! I was a little stumped on what to write on...

We're all gonna die!! This winter there will be 100ft snowdrifts, it will be so cold the flames on your  fires will freeze and Polar Bears will emigrate south; ripping everyone's heads off! Sorry.... I slipped into 'Daily Express' mode. I really do think that someone...

At the end of 2012, I was writing posts that were predicting the weather for 2013 but the one thing you cannot predict, is what happens in the garden and in life itself. I can quite easily say that 2013 has been the most challenging year for me.... in both the garden...

Now, this was something I never expected to do....and that was to judge a Rose and Flower show. Between May Ball and Graduation day, I had an unexpected phone call from my Dad saying that my Uncle wanted to speak to me about judging a Rose and Flower show. I was taken...

After a long winter and a late spring, we get a little warmth and some sun and everything goes off with a bang....especially the weeds. It is that green tide of endless mowing and weeding that we get this time of year. Theses are not Trinity weeds....they ain't posh...