Celebrating Primroses
April 19 is Primrose Day, and marks the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Disraeli, twice Prime Minister of England and also a prolific novelist who said that when he wanted to read a novel, he wrote one! The primrose was his
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Edgeworthia chrysantha: a shrub with history
On the 3 April we planted an Edgeworthia chrysantha in the large border to the side of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. A month earlier I had visited RHS Wisley and seen these shrubs for the first time. Over a hundred of them have
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Miss Coutts is very, very kind
We have a new shed! It sits very neatly in the corner of the yard and will greatly ease the cramped storage for pots, compost and tools we have had up to now. Also making its appearance, and later than we would
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Butts, Leaves and a Shed
It's a quiet time at the moment for flowers in the garden as it recovers from the drought. But the signs are promising; shrubs I thought were dying have produced new leaves and dahlias are showing the beginnings of very delayed flower buds.
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We have a new vegetable bed
On Tuesday 17 July the mechanical digger arrived in the garden. Along with it came two very active human labourers and all the volunteer gardeners. The mechanical digger removed the debris and rubble from successive builders, revealing the clay and the oxygen-starved
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