Classic Gardening Magazine
Gardening as it ought to be
A good read
Or at least I hope they are. The links on this page go to articles that can be about pretty much anything. What they have in common is a gardener's enthusiasm for some aspect of gardening. So, they aren't intended to have any particular practical application. They are intended to be good armchair reads. Perhaps you have a good read to recommend? It might be something you have read on a blog or elsewhere on the web, or something you have penned yourself. Either way, feel free to share it with us.Why every garden needs a cat
We have been under a lot of pressure to get another cat. Partly it’s the children, but also the garden needs one.
The Quentin Tarantino of fruit You try and tell them but they don’t listen.You warn them about wearing old shoes if they go out in the garden and of not going under the tree but they still come back peppered in vivid red splatters as if they have been strafed by a machine gun, and with a slick of red gore on their shoes as if they have been skidding through an abattoir.
The Quentin Tarantino of fruit You try and tell them but they don’t listen.You warn them about wearing old shoes if they go out in the garden and of not going under the tree but they still come back peppered in vivid red splatters as if they have been strafed by a machine gun, and with a slick of red gore on their shoes as if they have been skidding through an abattoir.
Where there's juice there's justice
There are swings, and there are roundabouts. There are Bramleys and
there are Coxes. Or rather, this year, there are no Coxes, but there is
an abundance of Bramleys. So, no go on the swings, but spinning nicely
on the roundabouts.
How do gardeners grow?
Hacking back the south facing border this afternoon, I came upon the evidence of a failed horticultural experiment. Cemented
to the old weathered wall of yellow stock bricks was a white ceramic
tile that had been cut, not entirely expertly, into the shape of a B.
Ten yards further down was another, cut into an F.
