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Oriana’s Garden

Here is Oriana’s Garden a year on. Words say nothing when a picture paints ….

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Saplings are Growing All Around the World

A Tanka Poem 5/7/5/7/7 Saplings are planted by nature – Just let them grow It is so easy Why don’t you look down And see What nature has done for you That’s all I have today

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Happy Christmas to All my Clients and Followers

Dear readers, thank you for your follows and interest. Although we are closed now until March, apart from the odd tree that needs pruning, I thought you might like something to share with the grandchildren. So without further ado, here is the link to my latest release for parents and children: Picture Book Feature View at Medium.com All my love, Hermione See you in the spring!

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Black Cat: Scabiosa Atropurpurea

A plant for autumn We are enjoying a wonderful warm autumn this years. The apples are clinging onto the trees, and the poppies are growing, but the frost will kill them, sadly. That is the beauty of perennials. You know they will return the following year though, so look out for your poppies in May, and tread carefully when weeding next year. For now, I have made you a short video to show you…

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Butterflies are Still Out

October, and time to tidy up, weed, and cut back the rudbeckia, and any other stragglers such as the Michaelmas which flowered early this year. But wait, what is that on the wall? Have you noticed the butterflies in the south west? Aren’t they remarkable? We planted lots of Verbena bonariensis, this year. Butterflies love them. They cheer me up in the autumn when most flowers are dormant, or…

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Time to Put the Garden to Bed

Over here we say, ‘It’s time to put the garden to bed.’ This is the time of year when we trim plants right back to the base. Anemone. Photograph by Hermione Laake This week I have trimmed back the fuchsia, buddleja (buddleia), and any spent hollyhocks (alcea), Japanese anemone, and old nigella buds which are dotted about in the garden. Great Mullein Verbascum. A wildflower. Photograph by…

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October’s Flowers

A late flowering sunflower. Sunflower by Hermione Laake Having three girls with October birthdays, it hasn’t escaped me that Marigolds (Calendula), are October’s flowers. But what other flowers will grace your garden in October? Here are just a few: Rudbeckia: these start growing in the heat of summer and can obscure and dwarf other plants, so mind where you plant them. Nevertheless, they…

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Gardening in autumn has changed. As a seasonal gardener, I am now much more likely to plant young plants, such as lavender and rosemary at this time of the year, than I would in spring. We have had some very dry springs, followed by dry summers, and having paid attention to them for several years now, and seen the effect of the weather on various gardens, locally, I have decided to do some…

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Tina’s Garden

A quick update on Tina’s garden. I have planted a mix of grasses in this bed. Some are evergreen, others return year on year. The euphorbia is oblongata and charasias. The euphorbia characias grow to quite a height. This produces sap when cut. Be careful as the sap can cause skin and eye irritation. (Best left alone.) This patch needs little maintenance. In the foreground is Rudbekia and…

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Anne’s Garden

Some photographs from Ann’s garden in September Verbena bonariensis flanked by grasses A wild foxglove, which has seeded itself Anemone. This flowers right through till autumn Swamp Lily, or Crimum Powelli a great plant to divide and plant everywhere you have a space, especially in large gardens More from me next time. Bye bye, for now.

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Cycling in the Cambrian Mountains

We decided to drive through the Cambrian Mountains and park in Tregaron. Keep moving A short 35 k drive from our pods at Builth, Wells. And an hour’s drive back home. The route along route 82 An old track, which used to run to Manchester.

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Sue’s Garden

Sue’s garden is full of neat and tidy shrubs. I keep them that way by pruning every two weeks right through until the end of the autumn. Pittosporum Japanese Maple flanked by pittosporum After pruning with short shears from Waitrose and secateurs A section of the walled garden after pruning

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Take salvia cuttings in late August for New plants in Spring

How to take salvia cuttings Salvia is very easy to create new plants from. Simply cut a woody section, clip off the first two leaves and the bud, and dip in rooting powder. Now add water. Salvia will be ready to plant put in spring. Keep your Salvia in a sheltered spot over winter. Keep salvia moist over winter. Enjoy your new plants in the summer.

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Ruth’s Garden

I am really enjoying the results of working on Ruth’s garden for the past two years. In the distance, the antirrhinum from Sarah Raven, and the Alchea; grown from seed brings warm red to brighten the summer months Scented Antirrinhum This is Powellii Crinum; an exotic, tall plant that responds well to cutting out sections and replanting around the garden. Not a small garden plant, unless you…

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Sue’s Garden

I really enjoy pruning this relatively new garden. A new garden in the south west Small gardens can be easy to maintain with regular pruning. This garden is a joy to look at Every two weeks, I use secateurs and pruning shears to keep these shrubs trimmed and tidy. Small features like garden statue add to the simple charm of this ready made garden A sea of green and tranquility An oasis of…

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Butterflies, Bees and Barbara. Yes, you.

Dear Barbara, You once told me that you were following my blog. Well this one is for you. Thank you, Barbara. My garden Take a closer look and you will find, bees, butterflies and, no, not Barbara. But Barbara’s garden is here in the archives somewhere. I enjoyed working on Barbara’s garden during lockdown, and inwards until the spring of this year when I thought I needed to give up my…

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Bring your Lily in before the rain

Why not bring the lily in before the rain? I always do this and it works like a pick-me-up. I bought mine in yesterday, and the room smells gorgeous. Lily The lily looked tired in the garden and only one bud was open. As soon as I bought it in all the flowers opened. Lily. Water a little all year and watch it return for several years.