Ryansgarden

LATEST ARTICLES ( 86 )

• New Year, New Blog

  

  Thank you to everyone who has read and continues to read my blog here. For the past six years this blog has been a labour of love and a fantastic way to track m... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Growing Dahlias from Seed

  

  Dahlias and cake - the perfect recipe in the kitchen One of the first plants I remember buying as a child was Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff'. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• RHS Tatton Park: Celebrations All Round

  

  Loveday and Vernon with Birmingham City Council - The Day of the Dahlia RHS Tatton Park Flower Show is a new favourite of mine when it comes to the garden show... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Seasons Produce and Things to Come

  

  Why, hello there! It’s been a whole 2 months since I last posted here, although it feels like it was only yesterday that I started to show you how the then new... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• PSB and Progress on the Plot

  

  The new vegetable garden in its infancy April has been a glorious month for the garden here on the farm. We’ve had sunshine in abundance giving me plenty of tim... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• You Say Potato ...

  

  This Bank Holiday weekend has turned out to be absolutely wonderful and we have been treated to some of the best weather so far this year meaning lots of time t... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Ryan's Garden: A Brief Update

  

  Today I awoke to the foggiest of spring days and at a rather chilly 1°C it seems as though nature is saying 'stop sowing those seeds and go back inside... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Flower Fiddlers and Painted Plants

  

  I’m sick to the back teeth of seeing flowers and plants tinkered with to the extreme – dyed, painted, glittered and abused beyond all recognition. Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Plans, Plots and Chickens in Pots

  

  The first month of 2015 has pretty much come and gone and although I hanker for milder Spring days I can’t help but feel that January passed at breakneck speed. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Hanging Basket Design Challenge

  

  A couple of weeks ago I was asked to take part in a design task, along with a few other garden bloggers, to create a Summer hanging basket that could potentiall... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Of Morning Walks and First Years Produce

  

  Frosted Nettles last week in my garden Each morning I dutifully traipse out to the garden, wellies on and bleary-eyed looking like an even more confused and... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• On Rehoming Ex-battery Hens

  

  The Ex-Batts and BHWT volunteers Back in June I drove to Oswestry for a hen rehoming organised by the British Hen Welfare Trust. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Gradual Progress

  

  Greenhouse offerings It’s been just over 3 months since I moved here and I don’t think I’ve stopped. Posting here has fallen by the wayside and it seems like... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Dry Garden

  

  Front Garden: Before and After Well, it’s hard work this smallholding lark but of course, I’d never have it any other way and to be honest it’s pretty damn goo... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Why, Hello There!

  

  It has been seven months almost to the day, 209 days to be precise, since I last posted here. In that time I’ve moved country, had one house move fall through... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Goodbye

  

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  Posted on 01 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Jewels in the Sunlight

  

  Meconopsis cambrica It’s amazing how much of a difference a little sunshine can make and with the added warmth and blue skies the garden takes on a whole... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Blossom, Blooms & Buckets of Slugs

  

  I finally feel as though the cobwebs of winter have been dusted off as there’s lush green growth all around and I have seeds bursting out all over the place,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Ryan's Garden Spring Competition

  

  Spring is here although it did get off to quite a slow start. Right now it's taken a little step back what with the new wave of cold winds and heavy showers... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Ready the Bumbles!

  

  On this evening in particular it feels as though Spring has finally sprung. Daffs and tulips are plump and opening, if not already blooming and there are buds... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME