My garden
Guest post: Pot luck
Please welcome again Malmo-based journalist, blogger and honorary Friend, Ashlee. “It’s been a pretty awful summer here in southern Sweden. Today, the sun made an appearance – a swan song in anticipation of the onset of autumn. August is known as “the rotting month” a time when fruits start to overripe and rot, herbs start […]
Flowers
Having celebrated my birthday this week, I’m feeling a little weakened, so forgive me if I just post some pictures of the flowers I’ve brought in and been given, to make the house feel suitably celebratory.
Sorting out the shed
With the garden as complete as it’s going to get for now, next on the list of ‘to do’ is sorting out the inside of the shed. You know, so that when you walk in a spade doesn’t fall on your ankles causing you to swear really loudly when next door’s kids are all outside. […]
Real reveal: My garden
While Chelsea’s finest – and Gwyneth Paltrow – were out perusing the best garden designs at the flower show last week, two people in south east london spent their week off work laying a square lawn, painting a standard shed and planting a handful of new – and frankly tiny – shrubs and flowers.* Yes, […]