Author Archives: Chloris

I now have a small garden but I am very much involved with the garden I owned and loved 18 years ago now we live very close by. The garden was nearly 11 acres, but the summer and winter gardens … Continue reading →

I have been a little absent from the blogging world because I have been trying to adjust to a small garden with little to excite me through the winter months. It is coming on and I have created a winter … Continue reading →

As the poet, Thomas Hood remarked, November is a gloomy month. Here in Suffolk we have not had the awful storms that have battered other parts of the country, but we have had torrential rain and flooding making many roads … Continue reading →

Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration; I am getting a bit sick of grey skies and rain but my newly planted garden is loving it and so is my first plant, Eucomis vandermerwei. This beauty comes from an … Continue reading →

July has been a bit of a washout. But I’m not complaining because I’ve been spared hours of watering in my newly planted garden. Still, I am trying to warm myself up with some fiery colours. Last week, I was … Continue reading →

These are the very first flowers I have picked for the house since we moved in 6 months ago, so it is quite historic for me. At first there were no flowers to pick and then when I eventually had … Continue reading →

I’m always impressed by gardeners who plan their gardens out on graph paper before planting and stick to their scheme. I always have a grand plan for my garden projects, but I never stick to it; the garden takes on … Continue reading →

I have three honeysuckles which waft their sublime perfume round the garden in summer. They are all varieties of our native honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum. Titania’s bower in Misummer Nights Dream was ‘ quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine‘ so the Queen … Continue reading →

It’s been a hammock sort of day today, it was very hot and the promised thunder storm never arrived. But I’m not complaining, the hammock is a wonderful hot July day treat. A pity the pond is too small for … Continue reading →