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

We usually plant a few trees each winter. This year we have concentrated on the back meadow area, which is rather bare and boring during...

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...

Gardener Gail Rowlands updates on how the flowers are reacting to the fluctuating summer weather, and the best types of flowers for pollinat

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...

Tips and observations from Langdon gardener, Gail It’s amazing what a bit of sun and warmth can do to a garden. A couple of weeks ago I...

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...

Guest blog by Langdon gardener, Gail Rowlands If you are like me you are wondering if spring will ever actually arrive for more than a...

Why dead wood is a must in a wildlife friendly garden Dead wood is bountiful in the Langdon garden and we love it. We have learned and...

As I greeted my emerging potato plants with glee a month or so ago, I wondered about the whole earthing up business. What’s it all for?...

Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...

Just as I get excited by the fungi that turn up cheekily and uninvited during autumn (“Invitation? Whoever said we needed an invitation?”...

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...

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...

A couple of months ago I noticed that some of the huge ‘weeds’ growing in the area we’ve nicknamed the Jungle weren’t dying back like the...

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...

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...

We’ve finally finished the raised beds we’ve been working on – they’re all filled with many barrow-loads of wonderful organic stuff,...

Last week I had my first go at making leaf mould. Well, when I say ‘making’, that’s a bit of a grand claim, because basically all I did...