My About Page

Dear readers, I hope you are enjoying my blog. 

Please do feel free to comment and ask questions any time 

in the comments box below. 

How my blog fits into my life?

I decided to write this blog in early Spring
2015. I wanted to try to engage with people
who are complete novices at Gardening. 

My intention was to get people to look
at my growing blog and learn from it, how
to learn about plants/shrubs and know what
is available at any time of year and how to 
nurture them properly.

I aim to build it up and create
different subjects, every now and again to
interest people and hopefully keep them
engaged. I love Gardening and it is in my
blood.




I wish I had had more opportunities
to ask and learn from my parents and
grandmother who were all great Gardeners
themselves.

I still ask my Mother about the
names of certain plants. I know
she has so much knowledge and
recollection from her own
amazing Garden in Scotland.

Why should someone read my blog?
What will they get out of my posts?

Which type of posts do I write? 
About Experiments - Veggie one

How to create a Garden space.

How to get inspiration from Gardens

which are open to the public.

It is about sharing and enjoying plants I know

well. Showing you how and what to grow plants.

Learn about the soil and type of conditions you have.

But I need you to help
me with my blog and
share your questions
and needs so I can help
you with your 'Mini Garden'
space.

Please do help me grow my
blog and give you the best
advice I can.

Thank You Readers.



I am a trained Gardener and this knowledge is best
shared and enjoyed by others who have an interest
but are not confident and sure what to do and how





to do it.

Do's and Don'ts in Gardening - Winter Season

 I'm back. Sorry for the absence.

Here is a list of

Do's and Don'ts

in Gardening

etiquette.

Please read on

and do ask as

many questions

as you like.

We are officially in winter now.

Plants are dormant from now

until March/April.

1. Don't forget, keep watering
plants in pots. (the soil will dry
out if not).

2.  Do remove dead branches by 
pruning them back.

3. Clear any messy leaves around
plants.

4. Compost them if you can.

5. Remove any diseased looking leaves
and burn or destroy them.


6. Don't throw away plants that are now
dormant. (See green shoots at the base).

7. Protect all pots and plants
over winter by keeping them
under cover or in a cool place
like a porch. 


8. If you are unsure if a plant
is still alive ask me for advice.
Send me a photo of it
or describe it to me.

How are you getting on with the tasks

I have listed?

Are you looking after
your plants in pots?


Have you found fleece
to cover your
precious plants?


What do you have in
your pots in flower
at the moment?

This is a real treat
and a jewel of winter

to me. I love its pure
white flowers that
are so cheerful on a cold dark day.

What is a Mini Garden?

Comments and Questions

This is such a beautiful private garden, 

Hatfield House 
in the country of Hertfordshire. 

Sweet scented wisteria

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please do keep posting up your comments.

Testimonials from Customers

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Beatrix Potter's Life P.2

Pleasee keep following me on my 

famous Gardners journey. 

Beatrix Potter's Cumbrian life

in the beautiful Lake District. 

A view Beatrix Potter
would have admired

 Beatrix Potter has become 'an icon' 

and a special woman throughout history 

and to the present day. 

Beside Derwent Water (Lake)

Her youth was relatively 
comfortable and she travelled
and holidayed in many places. 

This shows that her Father had
a good income and this enabled
the family to get away from 
London and be in more pleasant 
surroundings.
   
She strikes me as a very unusual
person from a young age. She was 
always intrigued by animals, insects, 
fungi and so much more.

 


 

Peaceful still waters

Beatrix Potter became a 
real plants woman
and was able to create
almost anything. 

 

Village of Near Sawrey

 She was also a farmer

and  nothing seemed 
to phase her.

She was a real 
entrepreneur and 
was so ahead of her
time. 





She fascinates me and
so many people still. 

Being strong minded 
as a woman was perhaps
quite unusual in her 
day. I am sure she 
inherited a lot 
of this from her father.



with whom she had a good relationship.

He was a greate role model for her.

One of Beatrix Potter's
stories was based here

Beatrix Potter  is such a legend. Her writings 

are loved by so many people throughout the world. 

But she has left it a better place with many 

National Trust  properties all over the 

United Kingdom for us to enjoy and revisit.

Everyone has some link
to her with her famous
'Peter Rabbit' story and other 
stories.  

Perfection in a Rose.
Hawkshead Galley