Gardening blog archive
Gardening blogs from Jul 2007 | Page 3
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A magical, Educational Gardening Experience (9)
Posted on 31 Jul, 2007 1 comment
! The Wicked Witch of the West.
She has a far more prominent role in the movie than in the book, but, of course, she represents bad/evil/setback,...
A passion for garden photos
Posted on 26 Jul, 2007 5 comments
I love plant photography. It ticks all the right boxes for me as a hobby as it combines colour, texture and composition in all sorts of ways....
Continuing with Begonia growing for the shows~
Posted on 26 Jul, 2007 4 comments
Yesterday i managed to get all of last years cuttings out of the greenhouse and either in the cold frame or outside in the shade. This year i...
Starting a compost bin
Posted on 26 Jul, 2007 8 comments
My new compost bin finally arrived this morning and I've realised I'm not quite sure what to do with it. The first issue is where to put it?...
Rain again - hope everyone is alright
Posted on 25 Jul, 2007 2 comments
As the rain comes down again and the flood warnings are put out for us on the path of the Thames my thoughts go out to all those who are suffering...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A Magical, Educational Gardening Experience (8)
Posted on 24 Jul, 2007 0 comments
After the Tin Man had stopped crying and rusting, the group moved on and came to a forest, which was scary. They were surprised by a lion, who...
Rain Gardens - turning it to our advantage.
Posted on 23 Jul, 2007 2 comments
It seems like this heavy rainfall is here to stay. Let's pool our brains to learn how to live with it ? I have just been reading a Telegraph...
Suffering plants - suffering gardener!
Posted on 23 Jul, 2007 4 comments
Well, I thought I'd find out how your plants are doing in the incessant rain... yes, it's been raining all day again after a slightly better...
Orchid Success
Posted on 23 Jul, 2007 13 comments
I am very proud of what I now feel I can call my orchid collection. I have a fantastic sun-room leading out onto the garden and this is the perfect...
Musing on Tatton
Posted on 23 Jul, 2007 3 comments
Much to my suprise yesterday the Sun was shining at Tatton Park. I got sunburn on my face in fact. It did rain torrentially at 1530, starting...
Cheshire Bound 2m
Posted on 21 Jul, 2007 0 comments
I am off to Tatton Park tomorrow. With four little birds from work (thats their description of themselves at the Seaside before).I have been...
Seed projects
Posted on 20 Jul, 2007 8 comments
From my recent trip to Harlow Carr I came back with some seed pods.A few rose hips from a Rosa Rugosa, a love in the mist seedpod, some white...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A Magical, Educational gardening Experience (7)
Posted on 19 Jul, 2007 3 comments
The Tin Man.
The original story describes fields of vegetables and grain, and tells us how Dorothy and Toto ate nuts and fruit from the trees...
Garden Studys
Posted on 19 Jul, 2007 7 comments
I have finally started the RHS Advanced Certificate in Horticulture.Its been six years since I graduated from RGU in Aberdeen!I have worked on...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A Magical, Educational Gardening Experience (6)
Posted on 18 Jul, 2007 6 comments
Scarecrow.
He is the first character Dorothy meets on her journey to the Emerald City. This is when I began to look at the movie. In the book,...
Garden keeping me busy.
Posted on 17 Jul, 2007 2 comments
The strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, black/redcurrants have finnished cropping, and we have enjoyed them with cream,yoghurt, in trifles,...
Survived the storms
Posted on 17 Jul, 2007 4 comments
Hi everyone,Well we have survived all the storms Yorkshire has had over the past weeks. Thankyou to those of you whe sent me private messages...
Work on my plants!
Posted on 16 Jul, 2007 0 comments
I have now added a couple of photos to my collection of pictures, one of my Begonias in their final pots but before i started work on them. The...
Harvest Time!!!
Posted on 15 Jul, 2007 2 comments
Today I picked the first produce from the veg patch-Dwarf French Beans that weren't quite so dwarf as I'd not looked at them for a while. You...
Slimy Customers are Still Sniggering.
Posted on 15 Jul, 2007 9 comments
I read somewhere that a good natural slug repellant could be made by soaking rhubarb leaves in water, and watering round vulnerable plants with...
*Parentless plants*
Posted on 12 Jul, 2007 2 comments
I am going to adopt a wee vegetable, a heritage tomato, Jersey Sunrise.Partly because I spent a very happy childhood in Jersey, and because I...
Wildflowers are in decline.
Posted on 11 Jul, 2007 6 comments
Have you got space at the edges of your garden or in borders for some wild flowers? I have some wild mallow seed, see a picture further down...
*Back to the greenhouse*
Posted on 11 Jul, 2007 1 comment
_I will be going back down to the greenhouse this afternoon to continue with measuring the buds on my Begonia plants. Any buds over 2 and a quarter...
Linking blog sites
Posted on 11 Jul, 2007 1 comment
I have just received an email from Ajay to inform me that there is now a personal "RSS" feed meaning that the blogs i write here can be seen...
Late sowing - my choice to extend the veggie cropping season.
Posted on 10 Jul, 2007 2 comments
Trying to extend the growing season, clearing the broad beans and an old strawberry bed, making a new raised bed, now planting ....Dwarf french...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A magical, Educational Gardening Experience (5)
Posted on 10 Jul, 2007 0 comments
When the house stopped spinning, and came back down to earth with a gentle bump, Dorothy opened the front door and gazed in wonder at a beautiful...
More gardening confessions
Posted on 10 Jul, 2007 6 comments
After visiting RHS Wisley and Hampton Court I was back in my own garden on Sunday. It was good to actually be gardening but the weather down...
Following the Yellow Brick Road- A Magical, Educational Gardening Experience (4)
Posted on 9 Jul, 2007 6 comments
I decided that the only way to depict the cyclone was to study the wind direction in our garden and, at some point, to have appropriate windmills...
HAPPY DAYS!
Posted on 8 Jul, 2007 8 comments
Hello everyone, hope you're all well?! This is my first time writing a blog on here... so where do I begin??? Well I've just taken the fleece...
Square Foot Gardening(2)
Posted on 8 Jul, 2007 3 comments
I'm really pleased this year as to how much my garden has grown in really quite a small space-baring in mind I have three 6x3 foot beds, I have...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A Magical, Educational gardening Experience (3)
Posted on 8 Jul, 2007 0 comments
1st February 2007
Having made all my notes, I went out into the garden again and took stock of what was required. Sure, all the hard landscaping...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A Magical, Educational Gardening Experience (2)
Posted on 6 Jul, 2007 6 comments
I thought about the Wizard of Oz occasionally over the next week or so, but was preoccupied with work and other things. I asked if anyone knew...
Wildlife in the Garden.
Posted on 6 Jul, 2007 16 comments
Wildlife in my garden.
Behind the garden shed we left a large nettle patch, this is needed by some butterflies for reproduction.I see red admiral...
Following the Yellow Brick Road - A Magical, Educational Gardening Experience (1)
Posted on 5 Jul, 2007 2 comments
Welcome to my blog concerning a Wizard of Oz Garden here in Fife, Scotland. This blog is my journal of (1) how the idea occurred, (2) how it...
Wet weather effects
Posted on 5 Jul, 2007 12 comments
Another effect of the incessant rain is what is happening to plants that would rather have dry conditions. Yesterday in a dryish period, I dug...
Visiting Hampton Court Flower Show
Posted on 5 Jul, 2007 4 comments
Yesterday's visit to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show was great fun. After seeing some of the crowds and queues at Chelsea Flower Show on TV...
My first Hampton Court
Posted on 4 Jul, 2007 5 comments
I am back from my first visit to Hampton Court Palace flower show. Actually, I should make that my first flower/garden show ever! I had a great...
Ideas for Recycling in the Garden
Posted on 4 Jul, 2007 2 comments
Green garden waste, grass, weeds, and vegetable kitchen waste can be recyled in wood or plastic compost bins, layer different materials, as too...
new garden
Posted on 4 Jul, 2007 5 comments
We've been here for 10 months now, and have had a lot of earth shifting to do. I'm now starting to see some flower beds, and although all the...
Start to prepare for the shows
Posted on 3 Jul, 2007 2 comments
This week i need to start to check through all my plants and sort out which will be likely to be ready for the Shrewsbury Flower show, and which...
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Posted on 3 Jul, 2007 1 comment
Peter and I are visiting Hampton Court Palace flower show tomorrow (Wednesday). Let us hope the rains stay away so we can enjoy our very first...
New glasshouse at RHS Wisley
Posted on 2 Jul, 2007 1 comment
Last week HRH The Queen opened the new glasshouse at RHS Wisley in celebration of the bicentenary of the RHS. I've been meaning to visit Wisley...