I’m writing about gardens this week excited that our delayed English June has finally got into gear in my own garden in Lewes, UK, but mostly because I’ve been inspired by a visit to the great gardens at Sissinghurst,…
My small town garden here in middle of Lewes, UK, borders onto an ancient defensive mound called Brach Mound. This year the owners of the Mound have decided to let it go wild and, rather like Burnham Woods in Macbeth,…
I know it looked lovely with that profusion of flowers from the clematis and passionflower but, it had just got too much so this weekend I had to do the dirty deed….. …..I was out their with my secateurs and…
There was some harvesting to do this weekend, a small crop of peas fattened up in their pods even though I was only growing a few plants in an experimental spirit and they got willfully entangled in with my new…
It is overcast this morning but warm and there is a sense of rampant fertility in the air as the English Spring comes to its climax here in Lewes in Sussex. I have a new addition to my garden, the…
I live in Lewes in East Sussex in the South of England and I have been building a new garden in the small space at the back of my Georgian terraced house. Here are some images through the last couple…