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Well they said it was Spring 16 days ago, but I'm still waiting for mine to arrive. We've had as many frosts in Spring (4) as we had all Winter. The "Spring" frosts are a lot harder on the plants...

Sunday, 20 September 2020 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Yippee, Spring is here and it’s time for our open days to start up again! Our first one will be on the 20th of September, the nursery is FULL and the...

Somehow July got away on me , not sure how that happened...I started a late June blog as follows... In true Tea fashion Archiduc Joseph has continued to produce flowers right thru the Winter "I must write a shortest day...

The rains have well and truly come and whilst we have slipped into June and supposedly Winter, the plants and grass are still feeling quite frisky and obviously feel the need to make up for lost drought time. I was...

May has bought the breaking of the drought early in the month for us, we scored nearly 100 mils of rain over about 5 days. Such blessed relief! Freedom from watering the garden until next summer, and the nursery for...

1 month since last I wrote...and soooo much has happened! First up Lockdown happened and we had to cancel the Open Day. The new "tea Bank" extension Lockdown is obviously a terrible thing for many people. My daughter, for instance,...

It is a well known, pretty much scientific, fact, that getting your hands dirty is good for the soul. In all this global pandemonium about washing your hands, no mention is made of the benefits of dirtying them. Not in...

Grassroots Roses Autumn open day Sunday 29th March, 10am-4pm Come get some healthy country air Come and join us for another open nursery and gardens. A great range of old-fashioned roses and perennials available for sale, as well as country...

So happy that we can officially declare Summer over! We were very lucky last week with a delightful 20 mils of rain. It certainly couldn't be declared a drought breaker, there is still no feed for anything and the ground...

It's been hard to create any enthusiasm to write a post this month. My daily garden tours are not something to look forward to, as they mostly just involve "what's died today..." This astilbe is near the hose and was...

It is still early January, and in our district, despite a recent unseasonal cold spell (over as of today!) the Spring-like cold and terrible wind have produced zero moisture and we are fast approaching drought conditions. I know some of...

As of 2 weeks and 1 day ago I've had an ankle fusion. Today I had the slab of concrete replaced with a sexy purple fibreglass cast. And guess what? It's still just as boring. And it hurts more... so....the...

Open day Sunday 1st Dec. Still plenty coming on in the nursery and lots of new roses for sale too. John Clare putting on an early show which will continue on through to Autumn Ah November! How could I have...

October heralds the start of the real Spring glory. November is probably the "Highlight" month, but somehow the promise is even more exciting...every day more perennials pop up, inevitably some from under or very close to something else which has...

As one who failed abysmally on their winter clean-up, it has now become a frenetic Spring clean in time for the first open day. As my daughter said , the good thing about open days is it forces you to...

Poohs. The weather has been very disappointing of late, we're all pretty over the rain. I know I shouldn't be complaining after so much mild and sunny winter weather, but somehow it seems even worse when you've got used to...

pink attraction july Winter, it's really here now as it's past mid July, but a lot of the plants just don't seem to know the date...some still feel it must be Autumn, now it's finally rained a lot and it's...

I've been waxing lyrical about the wonderful weather these last few months, but that halcyon time is over and winter has arrived with a first lovely light frost followed by days of horrible every direction winds and cold, thundery showers....

It seems to me, as a gardener and a farmer, one is always having to complain about something...almost always the weather. Too hot, too cold, too windy, too wet, or possibly several or all of these things together. Well that...

Autumn continues with no sign of Winter's approach. Some seasonal chilly nights in April have morphed into several more balmy weeks, with hardly a drop of wind or rain. The "Anything Garden" is still proudly displaying its Summer glory, with...