Arbuthnot's Blog archive

Strange weather

It shows just how peculiar our weather has been this year: I have primroses blooming...

July in the garden

This is the part of summer when I seldom have much colour. Right now I have a few...

Tomatoes

For the first time we are growing tomatoes outside since our new garden is too tiny...

Weather

So many of my garden plants are suffering this year due to the lack of real rain....

Plants and hot weather

In these last few days of extreme heat I was a bit worried about my garden plants....

Addition to my Allium blog

I took a picture but I don't think Alliums photograph well. As for my lovely red...

Alliums

The Allium Christophii that I thought were a bit on the small side have suddenly...

Alternating days of sun

The weather is being very fickle this year. One nice sunny day, albeit with a cold...

The Weather

I am so glad summer is here at last! Cold high winds and heavy rain. Isn't the British...

Buying

I know I'm not alone in this but how do I stop myself from making impulse buys every...

Pets

Just over a year ago we lived on a rural two thirds acre plot then we moved to the...

A year in a new garden

I've put in so many plants in the year we've been here and already the garden looks...