Did you smell the petrichor?
It is raining heavily today - at last. The garden is grateful and, as the first rain fell, the soil gave up a distinctive smell - called...
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Sue
- Feb 7
- 6 min
February In The Garden
I always think that Pope Gregory Xlll must have enjoyed a joke when he created February. It is the shortest month, but it is one of the...
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Sue
- Jan 14
- 4 min
Is this the ultimate dry garden?
We are on holiday - island hopping in the Atlantic while our alter egos, Dick and Susie, (yes really) stay at our house in France to...
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Sue
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
January in the garden
I write this on New Year's Eve (sad person that I am) having come inside from a glorious afternoon outside. Today we saw temperatures of...
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Sue
- Dec 24, 2022
- 3 min
The Power of the Moon
In 2004 we bought an old farm which still had a few old plum trees on it, but they produced very small fruit. A neighbouring farmer...
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Sue
- Nov 21, 2022
- 3 min
Bumblefoot
The name was new to me and I have kept hens for most of my life, but another family member identified it immediately. One of our little...
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Sue
- Nov 12, 2022
- 6 min
Things to do in November
I know this is late and there has been significant radio silence from the blog for the last six weeks, but activity is resumed and, if...
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Sue
- Sep 13, 2022
- 4 min
Here come the shape shifters
We have a large clump of bamboo. It was here when we arrived, has the potential to be highly invasive and we should have taken it out at...
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Sue
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
September garden tasks
What needs to be done in the garden in September depends so much upon the weather. It is one of those change-over months which can mean a...
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Sue
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Summertime in a jar
On our kitchen windowsill - tarragon macerating in white wine vinegar, some rather optimistically taken soft wood cuttings and ripening...
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Sue
- Aug 13, 2022
- 3 min
Winners and losers
This evening I am wandering around the garden at what I hope will be the end of the last canicule of 2022, notebook in hand. I want to...
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Sue
- Aug 2, 2022
- 4 min
August in the garden
I have never known heat like this. It has been sustained for week after week and we find ourselves in the third official "canicule" -...
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Sue
- Jun 30, 2022
- 5 min
July in the garden
I write this on June 30th as we approach sun baked July (it is currently raining heavily). At least that means that I should not have to...
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Sue
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
June in the Garden
And now it is summer…expect rain imminently. Or possibly. Despite a very wet early spring already there are water restrictions in France....
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Sue
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
Splurge on spurge
Spurge is the common name for wild euphorbias - a little acid green plant common in some meadows and verges. They are members of a...
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Sue
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
May's to do list
Apologies for the late arrival of May's to do list, but I have been busy catching up on things that I should have done in April. It is...
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Sue
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Divine drumsticks
We are experiencing wonderful weather for early May. Sunshine, little wind and high temperatures - temperatures of 28C and 29C are...
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Sue
- Apr 27, 2022
- 3 min
My top 10 herbs
First the shrubs - you can find space for some of these in your ornamental garden Rosemary - An ornamental shrub which loves a dry...
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Sue
- Apr 27, 2022
- 2 min
Hurray to the end of the hungry gap
The hungry gap happens in spring. It is the period between the end of your winter vegetable harvest and the moment you can start eating...
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Sue
- Apr 21, 2022
- 2 min
You should never count your chickens.
It is a very sad morning here in the garden - Mrs Pookie, our bantam hen who has been sitting on10 eggs has disappeared and so have all...
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