Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
How typical it is that great loads of flowers should be ready to collect when I have no need for a massive arrangement? But I HAD to cut them before they spilled their seed everywhere, which would only cause complete and utter havoc next season! I should never have...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
A split Chinese Elm, which I’m desperately sad about, seems a small price to pay for the deluge of wonderful rain we’ve received these last few days. Even on Saturday evening, the valley filled with smoke – an ominous sign, so to wake to the...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
I sow sunflower seed with great anticipation each year….particularly down at the pumpkin patch where I hope for a naive display of rampant growth. Their tightly furled buds remind me of those beautiful Chinese tea flowers that open in slow motion as they steep...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
The colours of a Glenmore Christmas are slowly bursting forth. Frangipani are tumbling to the ground on the north face of the house….. …while the first Bishop of Llandaff dahlias sway in the breeze at their feet. Deep reds and golden yellow, to be joined...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
The angustifolia lavenders are in flower! It took me years and years to find a strain of this classic English variety that would grow at Glenmore. For me, they represent the earliest imaginings of how we might shape the garden here (when it was nothing more than a...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden, Kitchen Gardening
How deceptive looks can be! After a very hot & sweaty weekend doing BIG jobs in the garden – barrow after barrow load of spent spring growth off to the compost (I thought I might explode!), I ended by gathering seed-heads in the Kitchen Garden. ...
