Danielcarruthers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 843 )

• Vine House Farm

  

  For bird lovers, Valentine’s Day is about more than hearts and flowers – it also marks the start of National Nest Box Week. Providing a suitable home, regular... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Pot to Product – Plant Pot Recycling Scheme

  

  Hooray, hooray, hooray – someone has organised a pot recycling scheme so that all our surplus plastic pots languishing in sheds around the country can be taken... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Seedy Stuff

  

  I’ve sorted through my stash of seeds before I put in this year’s order so that I only buy what is needed rather than succumbing to the myriad temptations of th... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Seedy Stuff

  

  I've sorted through my stash of seeds before I put in this year's order so that I only buy what is needed rather than succumbing to the myriad temptations of th... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• More Unseasonal Goings-on

  

  I’ve been getting into the garden whenever possible to tidy the borders. The most unexpected discovery was clusters fresh shoots on the lemon verbena – some... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Garden Design Course

  

  Garden Designer Arne Maynard is running a series of courses in June based at Allt-y-Bela his magical home and garden near Usk in Monmouthshire. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Unexpected Delights

  

  A dry sunny day gave me the opportunity to do some tidying in the garden. In amongst the expected delights of snowdrops, hellebores and witch hazel, there were... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• An Unblemished Beauty

  

  There’s a camellia bush outside one of my neighbours’ houses that has an early flowering camellia that usually has the perfection of its blooms marred by frost. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Designed with the Gardener in Mind

  

  Claire, our local interior designer, recently borrowed a few bits and pieces from me for her latest window and I’ve just seen the result – it looks like the bes... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• January: The Start of the Greenhouse Year

  

  Dark, damp, depressing, just the weather to escape into the greenhouse. Not got a greenhouse then get your skates on this is the time to start the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Barking Mad

  

  My tame tree surgeon delivered a heap of fresh oak chippings a couple of days ago. His tipper truck couldn’t access our drive so it was dumped on the pavement. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• It All About Greenhouses

  

  It may be miserably, cold and wet out in the garden but now is exactly the right time to be thinking about what type of greenhouse you should be buying. That’s... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Tiny Pots of Iris Reticulata

  

  I have some vintage tiny tom terracotta pots that I planted with individual Iris reticulata in the autumn. They have been growing strongly for weeks and just... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Autumn Sown, Well Grown

  

  I know I do bang on about it, but autumn sowing of hardy annuals in a greenhouse or coldframe really does make all the difference. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Hello Hellebores

  

  Wandering round the rain-sodden, wind-blasted garden, it’s a delight to see how much is happening. Plants don’t listen to weather forecasts – they just get on... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• On Being a Botanical Pedant

  

  Over New Year I went to the Stanley Spencer exhibition ‘Heaven in a Hell of a War’ at Somerset House and found it extraordinarily beautiful despite the... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• This Years Top Posts

  

  Now you know the difference between Spanish and Native bluebells. I was quite delirious with excitement during the visit to Tom Stuart-Smith garden. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Happy Christmas from Me and My Feathered Friends

  

  I’ve had these birds for years and they get an outing every Christmas – sometimes perching on bare branches in a vase accompanied by papier mache pears, but thi... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Geranium Palmatum – What a Performer

  

  I’m revelling right now in the wonders of Geranium Palmatum. It loves the conditions in our sheltered coastal garden and happily seeds itself around in a most... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Dainty Darlings

  

  The iris reticulata are so enjoying the continued mild weather that they look as if they may be blooming before long. I can’t decide whether to bring some into... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME