Friday, February 3, 2012
GARDENINGBEFORE the council came up with wheelie bins, caddies and the like, gardeners had embraced recycling wholeheartedly.
Friday, January 27, 2012
GARDENINGSNOWDROPS are the garden portent of weather changing for the better
Friday, January 20, 2012
GARDENINGTHIS year, the plan is to break my duck and celebrate the tenth anniversary of the annual Pickle Wars, never having quite got there in previous years.
Friday, January 13, 2012
GARDENINGIT DIDN’T take a professor, whose speciality is Living with Environmental Change, to tell Mavis Bishop, or anyone else on the Island, climate change is having an effect on plants.
Friday, January 13, 2012
GARDENINGIN THE kitchen garden, it is time to start the first sowing of salads under cover and broad beans. These can be started in the greenhouse or shed if the ground outside is wet and cold.
Friday, January 6, 2012
GARDENINGTHERE are hosts of new varieties of flowers, fruit and vegetables to look forward to this year.
Friday, December 30, 2011
GARDENINGWHEN wood sculptor Paul Sivell was looking for a suitable name for his business he was faced with panoply of choice.
Friday, December 30, 2011
GARDENINGTHE effects of climate change are now becoming commonplace and it is amazing how quickly we come to accept them.
Friday, December 23, 2011
GARDENING I MAKE no apology for returning to a well-worn theme at this festive time of year because gardening is very much a moveable feast and things move on quickly in a year.
Friday, December 16, 2011
GARDENINGTWO very different, but intriguing, flowering plants were highlighted to me by readers this week.
Friday, December 9, 2011
GARDENINGAS WE walked through Appley Woods near Ryde picking wild strawberries — the very best kind — my dear old mother warned me about the ‘strawberries’ that grow on trees.
“Don’t eat them, they’re poisonous, you know,” she told me.
Friday, December 9, 2011
GARDENINGCHRISTMAS wreathmaking takes place at Ventnor Botanic Garden next Saturday, December 17, between 2pm and 4pm in the Echium Room.
Friday, December 2, 2011
GARDENINGDON’T we all love a detective story? And here is one just down the road from me that I have, so far, been unable to unravel…
Friday, November 25, 2011
GARDENINGAT LEAST two continents ‘collide', in Peter Matthews’ garden.
He has an uncommon collection from around the world merrily thriving in that micro-climate that is the Undercliff.
Friday, November 18, 2011
GARDENINGCHRISTMAS comes but once a year but the so-called Christmas cactus often blooms twice — and not always during the festive season.