Category Archives: Allotment

Finally! A flower has appeared, so pristine amid the drought depleted pond and its dusty environs. The katsura tree just beyond the pond has just started to produce its distinctive autumnal scent of burned sugar… so evocative and delicious, unexpected … Continue reading →

… actually the second – I ate the first one!

Just two years from planting this tree in the shelter of a high wall…

An unexpected joy; having failed dismally to get these to flower in the greenhouse, I apparently shoved a couple of leftover corms into a stony isolated bed beside the mulberry tree and forgot about them. Then this happened! They’ve been … Continue reading →

What a surprise amid the mud…

birthday present – new water collection tank!

Hmm, so much for daily checking on the Cox’s Orange Pippins (planted only last year) to ensure harvest before they drop … I found this beauty on the ground. I suspect the local magpie. But it was unmarked and completely … Continue reading →

I had forgotten that I planted a tiny little melon seedling in the glasshouse… then mistook the rampant foliage for the adjacent cucumber… So it came as a great surprise to find a cluster of melons hidden amid the leaves. … Continue reading →

Weeding in the brassica cage, I came upon this fine fellow under a large cabbage leaf. So pleased to see that at least one of the disappeared tadpoles had made it to frogdom! Such a miraculous transformation.

Ever since falling in love with one in the entrance to the large glasshouse at RHS Wisley, I wanted to grow a brugmansia. When I finally achieved my dream of having a “proper” glasshouse myself, a seller on ebay provided … Continue reading →

Starting at the top by the house on a beautiful summer’s morning…

Such a joy – all planted last year and now first flowering, despite the aphid invasion….. And saving the best till last – over 50 buds in its first year!

Whew, that was a lot of compost – all from the wonderful Urban Wyrm.