by Steve | Feb 6, 2010 | Bromeliads, Home Gardening, Indoor Plants
Really, can you ever have enough terrariums? Naturally Mike thinks YES but well I just can’t help myself… I have been wanting a ‘goldfish bowl’ terrarium for ages but baulked at the price of them in florist shops. However when I found this...
by Steve | Feb 2, 2010 | Favourite Plants, Photography
One day I found myself in a large bed of roses and flowering annuals when I spotted this particular rose. A friend of mine would call it a ‘fruit salad’ garden as it had pretty much a bit of everything with no apparent colour scheme. I had been somewhat...
by Steve | Jan 8, 2010 | Photography
Do you know, just sometimes it pays to be lazy. Afterall it was sheer laziness that enabled me to capture these shots! Recently Mike was away on a trip to America and Canada. On the day he left he very thoughtly sent flowers to my work. They were giant gerberas in...
by Steve | Dec 23, 2009 | Bulbs
Call me crazy but the other day I decided to buy some saffron bulbs and give them a go. The allure of the world’s most expensive spice and its pretty crocus flowers was enough to sway me. The saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) is supposedly an easy to grow bulb...
by Steve | Dec 15, 2009 | Home Gardening
For some time I’ve been trying to do something ‘different’ with my living room balcony. Its been over a year of experimenting and I’m nearly there I think. Unfortunately for the alyssum I got ruthless the other day and decided they just had...
by Steve | Dec 1, 2009 | Book Reviews
I recently had dinner with my sister and hatched a ‘brilliant’ plan. My sister is a teacher and works in a childcare centre. She was chatting to me about the potatoes she recently grew with the children and how excited they all were by the success. I...
by Steve | Nov 20, 2009 | Book Reviews
Last weekend I spent a very enjoyable 3 hours in this bookstore. Florilegium is the kind of place that carries every conceivable garden book under the sun. And then there’s all the wonderful books you couldn’t conceive of but that someone else has! Its a...
by Steve | Nov 17, 2009 | Bulbs
I love getting mail. Love it. And what could be more exciting than getting garden related mail? Not much I say. Today marked the safe arrival, in the mail, of my latest bulb purchase – Albuca spiralis. These bulbs are from South Africa and have the odd habit of...
by Steve | Nov 10, 2009 | Book Reviews
A beautiful coffee table book covering the extraordinary garden that is Chatsworth. Thoroughly engrossing with plenty of detail about the history of the property (which is long and illustrious) and the improvements made by the Duchess of Devonshire during her 50 plus...
by Steve | Nov 5, 2009 | Home Gardening, Indoor Plants
Depending on your age you might just cringe at the thought of going down this gardening path but bear with me as I think it has merit. If you’re in the younger Gen Y category then you’ll probably be discovering terrariums for the first time. I met a very...
