Olive and Let Die
The other week on Gardener’s World, Monty handed out a piece of mischievous advice from the late Christopher Lloyd. Most gardeners...
10 Garden Ornaments Not To Buy Me
Rarely can you go into an area of a garden centre and say confidently that 98% of what they're selling is tosh. With garden ornaments you...
The Indiana Jones of botany...Yeah, right
First off, apologies for the lack of blogposts recently. In the summer we moved from our Good Life-sized garden in Surbiton to a house...
Blue Sunday
As a former beekeeper I’m regularly tipped off by friends about the latest bee peril doing the media rounds. Whether it’s a case of...
The bounty of Nigella
Let me explain from the outset that the link between Nigel (last week) and Nigella (this week) is purely coincidental. One's a lovely old...
He's always making plans for Nigel
I have a friend at work for whom Gardener’s World is unmissable. She is a keen gardener, someone who knows her artemesia from her elbow....
Viburnum would...
Abundance. It’s a very spiritual sort of word. A former next-door neighbour was really into Feng shui and would talk glowingly on the...
The total garden workout
As the year unfolds before us, our gardens bring many different firsts. The first snowdrop pokes its head through the grass, the first...
Its not about the honey...
I know it’s nowhere near Spring, but I can see snowdrops beginning to push their way through the lawn and it is the time of year when a...
O Tannenbaum! Wie treu sind deine Blatter!*
Christmas is a time for traditions isn't it, and one tradition which we hold dear in the Hopkinson family is that of the Christmas tree....