Category: Garden & Nature
-
Beautiful Things to Pick and Arrange Now
From the garden Alliums As the narcissi begin to fade, the alliums reach their crescendo, bursting over the flower beds in drifts of purple and white and pink. I love the large globe varieties en masse in a tall vase – an explosion of floral fireworks that never fail to dazzle – but also their…
-
Eat the Seasons: May
While April gives us the first fresh tastes of Spring, May is when the vegetable garden gathers speed and there are new treats to harvest with each passing week. Here are some of our favourites to enjoy now. Vegetables Asparagus. Tossed in olive oil, lemon juice and Maldon salt and grilled in a searing hot…
-
Jobs for May
While May is my favourite month of the year it may also be the busiest! I’ve been ardently gardening for years now and yet the sudden vigour of the month always creeps up on me and I find myself rushing to prick out, pot on and plant out while trying to stay on top of…
-
A Springtime Walk in the Woods
I love walking in the woods in Springtime. The reawakening that the season brings is more apparent there than anywhere else, and I find myself quite enchanted by the unfurling of buds into leaves, the ever-changing damasked undergrowth, and the play of light through the maturing canopy. On each visit I notice something new – catkins, flushed with pollen,…
-
Seed Sowing and a Poem
Can there be anything as quietly miraculous as the burying of a seed, the hopeful waiting, and emergence of a tender, nodding seedling? One of my favourite activities in the depths of winter is to curl up in an armchair, with a cup of tea and a stack of seed catalogues by my side, and…