Winter – Notes From My Garden

Happy New Year!

Published on December 31, 2024December 31, 2024 by Catherine12 Comments

Farewell 2024!

Wishing you all a garden full of beautiful colour and heavenly perfume in 2025!

Bringing our gardens back to life is only a dream at this time of the year—but there is little to stop us from enjoying that dream. Seed, bulb and plant catalogues are popping through the letterbox and it’s a treat to sit and flick through the pages on a cold winter night, sparking inspiration and indulging in dreams of a perfect garden! I’m sure most of us are the same, we always end up with far more dream plants than will fit in our borders, right? But…there’s always room for a few more plants in the garden?

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Six on Saturday 2020 29-02

Published on February 29, 2020March 21, 2020 by Catherine14 Comments

a Garden Centre lunch

Just to be clear from the start – this isn’t a post about food! It’s a post about Garden Centres, plants, and a lack of will power. On Wednesday I lunched with my two sisters. Mostly the food isn’t particularly brilliant, and the cakes are much too large, but we’re not really there for the food, we’re there to catch up with each other’s news and we know that if we want to chat for hours, no one will notice Continue reading “Six on Saturday 2020 29-02” →

Armchair Gardening

Published on January 14, 2020February 7, 2020 by Catherine

Spring seems a long way off. Here on the west coast of Scotland the wind is howling, roof tiles rattling and the rain is beating against my study window.

I don’t mind venturing into the garden on cold days – as long as it’s not on bleak, dark, stormy days like today.

The postman has been busy, click image for full post