By Alice | Published:
January 25, 2012
This is a pretty dead time of year in the garden but primroses stop everything being brown :) I keep pots of things on that piece of slate on the table when we aren’t using the table in the winter. The table is from IKEA that I painted with outdoor wood paint and let go a bit weathered over the years, the metal Habitat chairs are from Ebay, also painted. Putting assorted sizes of green painted picture frames on the trellis is another idea I had a few years ago to stop the winter garden and an ordinary fence looking too boring, they are weathering now but that’s OK. I think it looks nice in the summer too when the clematis and jasmine grows through it. Picture frames are really cheap from charity shops once they have lost their glass.
By Alice | Published:
September 26, 2011
Why do some people with allotments like having bonfires so much? We live near several allotment areas and the smoke was particularly thick in our back garden on Sunday morning. Simon’s dad makes very nice jams, on our lasts visit we were given plum jelly, delicious!
By Alice | Published:
September 24, 2011
Any big change in routine, in this case a new longer commute, seems to need a little while for things to settle down and everything to fall into place. I’m having fun going off to the countryside every day but it does mean I have three and a half hours a day less than before to work on my own projects at home. Even though I’m still taking plenty of pictures, for the first time I am having trouble fitting in little pockets of time in the week to upload my pictures to this site. I also haven’t sewn or made anything in ages, and baking and interesting cooking seems to happen in a rush late in the evening. However as I say, things are falling into place and getting back up and running.
Another thing to take up time is that we are getting our house ready to sell as we are hoping to move to a place with more room some day soon, fingers crossed. I need room for all my bicycles and musical equipment! We are trying to decide if we should move to the country, or a smaller town, or stick to the city.
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By Alice | Published:
August 3, 2011
It’s looking a bit of a jungle right now as the clematis and jasmine are going mad but hey, tidy gardens are overrated ;)
By Alice | Published:
October 15, 2010
I first grew nasturtiums a few years ago as a companion plants for veg but I have got pretty fond of them so plant them now for their own sake. The round leaves and the bright colours of the flowers are ever so cheerful. This spring I planted more varieties and they have been going well and flowering for the past few months. They seem pretty easy to grow and do self seed, the seeds look like little brains as they drop off the plants. The plants seem to have coped perfectly happily without me giving them much thought. Oh and the flowers are edible too. All-in-all I think nasturtiums are pretty darn great.
