I got my plant buying fix for the month!!
Shopping Expedition!Went to Crews Hill in Enfield today looking for plants for 3 different parts of the garden.Crews Hill is a great place to visit as on one road (Cattlegate Road) there must be about...
View ArticleA free day in town
So you discover you have a day to yourself- Yippee! Now what to do?Some people go shopping, others the cinema, a visit to London Zoo? (ooo tempting!) perhaps a walk along the Thames (a very good 2nd...
View ArticleLondon Eye!
On Tuesday eve we went on the London Eye!I have actually been on it twice before but both times were years ago when it first opened and you forget how magical it is to view our city from above!We went...
View ArticleA trip to the Market
I took these photos when I went to Borough Market last autumn with my sisters. Borough Market is just on the south bank of the River Thames by London Bridge Station. Its open on fridays and saturdays...
View ArticleCould spring be officially here?
For me there is no better sign of spring than the fact there is frogspawn in the ponds! :)The Common frogs (Rana temporia) have been calling in the ponds outside for about a week now- but today was the...
View ArticleSunny day so out in the garden!
Today spent the day in the garden, and really had a major tidy up- and i have to say the garden looks 100% better than it did before if i do say so myself! I planted a purple cordyline tat had been...
View ArticleMushroom Harvest!
For Christmas P got a Mushroom growing kit from my mum! (it was my idea really she asked what to get him and it was the first thing that popped into my head!)I'd seen these for sale before in the...
View ArticleA new Echeveria!
On thursday I met up with Chris from the HTUK forum to swap some plants, Chris works in central London so was easy to meet up for a chat and a beer (well i had the beer- Chris had a coke as it was his...
View ArticleColumbia Road
I went to Columbia Road Flower Market this morning. My favourite spot in East London!Its the first time ive been since last summer- and have been looking forward to it- however my bed seemed far to...
View ArticleA weekend by the sea
Sorry I haven’t been able to add anything recently, ive been away at the weekend down to visit my parents for mothers day. They live down in Dorset in a cute little village by the sea. Its always nice...
View ArticleBreaking News!
There is a possibility we may be able to get an allotment this year! Am incredibly excited about this as we try each year to grow veggies in our garden- but I never let P plant them out in the garden...
View ArticleMurder on Nelson Road!
Call the Miss Marple!- a murder has been committed with the purportrator left unknown!Sorry if you were eating your tea when you read this but this is the second victim in 1 week! My poor goldfish are...
View ArticleFeeling Broody?
What would you have seen if you were my neighbour looking out of their window this morning??Well….You would have seen me walk out into the garden to the hen house- pick out a chicken from the nest box...
View ArticleRHS Greener Gardening Show - 31st March
Forgot to put up some photos of the Greener Gardening show here in London.Its the last RHS show till the autumn now which seems bizarre as spring has hardly even started yet!My camera was on some wierd...
View ArticleIts seed sowing time...
We were given a free plastic mini greenhouse last weekend (thanks Rachel!)- which meant we could start our new vegetables from seed and baby plants to be put on the allotment (when we eventually get...
View ArticleBuying a Bumble bee colony
You may remember I had seen on Jimmys Farm a bee box ready supplied with bumble bees- i loved this idea and wanted to see if I could find a source of these boxes- i got a few responses from my emails.I...
View ArticleA Hedge in a Box!
So I was up at 6:45 this morning so walk round to my local Post Office depot to pick up my native hedge that I ordered online last week.It actually arrived yesterday but the postman didn't knock, and...
View ArticleAn End of April Update
Hey guys,Im sorry its been nearly 3 weeks since my last post- sorry about that!Well whats been happening?Hermione is still broody- I gave up dunking the chicken in the pond to cure her after about 3...
View ArticleAllotment update!
I wanted to share with you the very first sneaky glimpse of our new Allotment plot!! We have been given a definite date of when we can have our allotment- it is ours from the 16th May! The plot is as...
View ArticleAkamba!!
Last Saturday I met up with fellow Blogger - Julia (from We're going to need a bigger pot) and we both went to a HTUK forum meet at a brilliant tropical plant nursery in Birmingham called Akamba- Julia...
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