I don’t know how it’s happened but I seem to have used up all of my…
Pot’s Growing On? Container Gardening
We grow lots in pots and here are some things I’ve learnt.
8 tips to demystify growing Begonias as houseplants
When I first started going to garden events like RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the first thing…
Pot’s Growing On in November? Hedging my bets
I’ve been thinking for a while that something is up with our small garden and these…
Pot’s Growing On: plant indoor bulbs for Christmas(ish) colour
It’s the time of year when you can sit back, put your feet up… and pick…
Pot’s Growing On: addicted to crazy leaves
Hello loyal reader! (Ignore if first visit or you plan on never returning). In the run…
Outdoor mini aubergines for pots and containers in small spaces
Here I show you the small aubergine plants I’ve been growing in pots at home and…
Pot’s Growing On? High summer in Clapham
Sorry for the lack of updates about our garden recently, I’ve been so busy opening my…
Pot’s Growing On in May: getting ready for a show-stopping summer!
May? Mayhem more like. So much is going on this month I feel like Dorothy whizzing…
Pot’s Growing On: winners and losers
I didn’t think there would be anything more nerve-wracking than having Monty Don coming around to…
Pot’s Growing On: April 2016
Someone pointed out I haven’t done an update about our own garden for a while, clearly I’ve…
Dividing a fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
I want more ferns for our fern wall and some of our ferns are ripe for dividing. After…
Getting to grips with grasses
In 2016 I want to get to grips with ornamental grasses. In particular, using them in mixed…
Fernatic: 50 fern species, 1 living wall!
Why we created a diverse 50 species collection of ferns on one modern living wall and how…
Dahlia experiment: cultivars put to the test!
In late 2013 I discovered Dahlias. As unbelievable as that might sound to gardeners who have grown…
Pot’s Growing On: cuttings to overwinter
Today I took softwood cuttings of a few plants in order to overwinter them more easily…
Planning the winter/spring white garden
Last year I attempted a ‘spring white garden’. Bit of a disaster. I was aiming for white…
Whoops, bought two mini succulents
Uh oh, what’s going on here? Two little succulents seem to have popped into my bag…
Review: Garland Grow Light Garden
Being an impatient so and so occasionally, last winter I couldn’t wait to get sowing and…
Pot’s growing on: Dahlias, Nasturtiums and… cats?
April 2015, what a month! Practically no rain and hot all month, then the weather turned…
Designer Edibles 1: Peas (Pisum sativum ‘Meteor’)
I’m on a mission to grow as many different species and varieties of plants as possible…
Pot’s Growing On: 1st April and spring is well underway
After about a year of planning for our garden this year, we’re now able to get…
Pot’s Growing on in March 2015? Keeping seedlings alive and watching the world come to life
With the spring equinox (and a non-existent cloud hidden solar eclipse) done and dusted, Clapham is…
Dividing a Zamioculcas zamiifolia (ZZ plant)
I’ve had a Zamioculcas zamiifolia for some years now. In the last year, I found the…
Sowing seeds, planting clematis and pruning
Today Rumbles was doing cartwheels in the garden trying to catch a fly – the most…
February: exams done, seed sowing starts!
9th of February is a date I’ve had engrained in my mind for the last five…
Shovelling sh*t while the plants still go at it!
October is almost over, so here’s a diary of what’s been going on in Littlebury gardens…
It’s October and it’s still warm! Bulb planting and drain pipe trellis time
What’s going on with the weather? Although it’s dark by about 6.30pm now, it’s still sunny…
Pests and diseases (vine weevil, slugs, snails and rust)
For every positive in the garden this summer there has been a pest or a disease…
From the streets: who needs a garden to garden?!
I was just moseying around Brighton at lunch and four houses caught my eye down a street…
Parrot Flower Power – iPhone app and Bluetooth sensor gizmo
For Christmas, Chris bought me a Parrot Flower Power – what is it? It’s a battery…
35 Turret Grove Open Garden
The National Garden Scheme (NGS) is brilliant because it raises money for charity and lets us…
Brachyscome iberidifolia (blue) window box pruning
Back at the start of the year we spent ages trying to decide the type of…
Cacti mini garden
Three barrel cacti, including one from Chelsea Flower Show 2014. The flowering one is obviously the…
Clapham Garden (Part 3): pots happening in May?
Spring started early this year, with a warm March and April, during which I planted out…