Category: Gardening Blogs

Tip Toe Through the Tulips in April. The early first Tulip is now blousy but there are more to come. Imagine what it’s like to...

Magpies Earlier this week, a pair of Magpies visited GG and we saw them again today. They were foraging around the garden sheds. We watched...

Gertie’s Garden, Mid-March… ROYGBIV and some… At the moment Gertie’s Garden has a rainbow of colours, and some ….. … with the promise of more...

GG in February 2020 Beautiful Hellebores speak for themselves and although GG is a mess, soggy and bits-strewn with wind and rain, flowers peep through...

A very popular vegetable in the kitchen and relatively easy to grow. Years ago an onion bed had to be double dug , manured then...

Gertie’s Garden Flowers, February 1st 2020. Hellebores are arriving again … just gorgeous! Freckles is hanging on, and I am glad about this at least,...

Gertie’s Garden by November 2019. There are still blue Geraniums on the Blue Hill and now pink ones are returning too! Up in the wiggly...

As it was still dry this afternoon I decided I should definitely pull the biggest the beets and as I had my camera with me,...

Yesterday’s Country diary in the Guardian was all about ivy flowers. I have loads of mature English ivy (Hedera helix) on my trees and have recently heard...

Gertie’s Garden Tardis: By September. This is one of GG’s stars this year, currently giving comfort to a passing Bee. It’s a Teddy Sunflower from...