Making our own confetti from rose petals
Every year we have a glut of rose petals that usually get composted but this year the rose petals are being put to very good and special use
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Oct 27, 20232 min read
Grow Your Own Cup of Tea
Last year I attended a super workshop at Langdon led by Mandy Rickard called Weeds and Wildflowers. At the end of the morning we shared...
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Jun 29, 20232 min read
Experimenting with the Cut Flower Beds
It has been a very slow start for the garden and me (thanks to a nasty dose of covid and another knee injury) this year. Thankfully the...
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May 8, 20232 min read
Grow Your Own...Cut Flowers
by Langdon gardener, Gail Last year in one of my bored moments I decided it would be a great idea to create a Cut Flower Border. Needless...
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Apr 25, 20231 min read
Follow the yellow brick road: A shady spring border
by Gail Rowlands (Langdon gardener) What do you do when one of your bosses decides to construct a beautiful path through a scrubby bit of...
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Mar 28, 20233 min read
My Wilderness Experiment
Composting, wilding and trying something new
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Apr 26, 20213 min read
Talking to Gail about her springtime woodland pathway
Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...
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Feb 26, 20216 min read
Springtime here we come!
Oh yes – this is VERY welcome. Warmer and finally, drier. Our boggy, saturated ground is at last getting a breather – and so are we. It’s...
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
Soggy Fragments
My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...
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Dec 16, 20205 min read
Getting along with rabbits and moles
We have lots of these burrowing furry fellows here at Langdon, and in the past week the two of them have had me thinking and keeping me...
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Nov 24, 20204 min read
Composting success and ‘No Dig’ beds
My very own home-made compost – PROUD! Last Friday I had such a brilliant afternoon. On a whim I decided it was time to empty out the...
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Nov 18, 20204 min read
New veggie plot
We’ve finally finished the raised beds we’ve been working on – they’re all filled with many barrow-loads of wonderful organic stuff,...
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Oct 10, 20202 min read
Lakeside bark path
In spring this year I realised that the lovely plants we had planted a year ago beside the lake were about to get completely swamped by a...
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