Newsletter Archive

Summer and the festive season are coming...and nothing says is quite like hydrangeas!* Hello everyone, I am delighted to invite you to our TWILIGHT GARDEN VISIT & AFTERNOON TEA on SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER. The last in our series of...

Maybe... Hello everyone, My how all of a sudden the months are hurtling along! I can't believe I'm inviting you to the final in the year of our scentsational seasonal series with CRAIG ANDRADE, aka THE RACONTEUR this time for...

Poppy pod after shedding its petals… Hello everyone, The long journey to the peony poppy crescendo is gaining pace, with a new specimen unfurling daily! The ruffled ones have joined the singles now, with a double here and there...some are clear...

A bygone 28 October…of course what eventuates this year will depend entirely upon Mother Nature! Hello everyone, Next in the rolling 'series of garden events' as promised is the MID-SPRING GARDEN VISIT & LUNCH on FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER. Hard...

Double, single or ruffled…each one unpredictable, each highly detailed and exquisite at every stage… Hello everyone, I am delighted to invite you, at last to a workshop that's been so very, very long in the planning: THE POETRY OF THE POPPY with artist ROSE...

Design studio plotting… Hello everyone, How delighted and excited I am to invite you to join Interior Designer ADELAIDE BRAGG here on FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER...at last! Thrice thwarted, this time nothing is going to stand in...

Some of last year's fabulous workshop characters! Hello everyone, It's time to release our much anticipated annual WILLOW WORKSHOP with PENNY SIMONS on FRIDAY 07 OCTOBER! That said, we never can be quite sure if it will...

Behind the wire…a beauty whose taste I'm not yet quite sure about! Hello everyone, Hot on the heels of the Insta Live conversation with Charlie Albone on Tuesday evening and with spring gathering apace, I thought it timely to release the...

They may be small but…here is pure intoxication in a tiny blossom… Hello everyone, How I hope you will be tempted to join CRAIG ANDRADE aka THE RACONTEUR and me for our EARLY SPRING PERFUMERY & CITRUS CELEBRATION on SUNDAY 25...

Blossom, citrus and… Hello everyone, I'd like to invite you to celebrate the arrival of spring, with a very mini-scale OPEN GARDEN & MORNING TEA on SUNDAY 04 SEPTEMBER!  With the winter solstice behind us and the winter...

Still (somewhat surprisingly) they flower! Hello everyone, Wowsers what a week! How I hope you've managed to keep above the water line? I know it's a dire situation for too many...not far from here either and my heart goes out to all those affected....

Irrepressible winter beauty... Hello everyone, I'm in the mood to release a series of new events for the remainder of the year (we've past the winter solstice - woohoo!) and to kick them off, the first is for music lovers!...

Peek-a-boo! All wrapped up, leeping the white cabbage moth at bay... Hello everyone, Just a gentle reminder...and some excitement in the planning...see below! An enthusiastic little clutch of peeps have booked to join me here next week (so after the...

Hiding under giant leaves...destined for the lunch table! Hello everyone, How excited I am to invite you to join me for the very first kitchen gardening day of the year:  inTHE  KITCHEN GARDEN LATE AUTUMN/EARLY WINTER on SATURDAY...

Herbal tisanes from the garden… Hello everyone, How delighted I am to invite you to join me and ANTHIA KOULLOUROS for our LATE AUTUMN/EARLY WINTER HERBAL GARDEN & SEASONAL EATING FOR HEALTH event on SATURDAY 21 MAY....

Zinnia-mania still going strong… Hello all, There are just a handful of places left at our never before and perhaps never-to-be-repeated PETAL POUNDING & PRESERVATION DYEING -WORKSHOP with INDIA FLINT on SUNDAY 01 MAY (for events that depend on the...

Lavender Days... Hello everyone, Lavender days...how magical those first few days of the New Year were! Yes they were (although I know it's quite hard to imagine just now!)...baking hot, with a ferocious sun beating down from...

Zinnia-mania… Hello everyone, When I mentioned in the 'autumn update' newsletter that I was treading literally with fear, trepidation and great care in one little pocket of the garden...I wasn't kidding! These bursts of pure, colourful joy...

A welcome burst of yellow…(Jerusalem artichoke flower) Hello everyone, Heavens these last weeks have brought their challenges! How I hope you're working your way through any that have arisen for you; have plugged the leaks and had the opportunity to...

Captured in a fleeting moment of sunshine… Hello everyone, My goodness we seem to be hurtling from one calamity to another, don't we? Just as one disaster subsides, another seems to raise its ugly head, bringing furious consequences. I do hope you've weathered this...