Category Archives: Gardening

An Autumn of Watercolour

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Nigel Smith

I’ve spoken to lots of people in the area and in these very worrying and unstable times, we all agree on one thing: that it has been the wettest late autumn anyone can recall. Sometimes I then mention that the … Continue reading →

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Back to Basics

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Francis Pryor

The last few weeks have been a bit frantic. My new book, A Fenland Garden, was published on July 6th and on that evening I did a sell-out signing in Waterstones Bookshop, Kings Lynn. Since then, I’ve spent a week … Continue reading →

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Bookshop Alert: My Next Book Is Published on July 6th!

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Nigel Smith

I know I mentioned “A FENLAND GARDEN: Creating a haven for people, plants and wildlife” in my last blog post, but when I wrote that I hadn’t seen a copy of the book itself. So often when I receive that … Continue reading →

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Restorative Autumn

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Francis Pryor

I do apologise that most of my recent blog posts seem to have been apologies about not writing blog posts – and I suppose this is another one, but I also hope it’s a return to something a bit more … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back!

Posted on August 18, 2022 by Francis Pryor

Many things have been proposed as the ‘new normal’, but I would suggest it’s when you repeatedly find yourself having to apologise. Quite often it’s due to things beyond our control, such as a madman in Russia or the insanity … Continue reading →

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Keeping Things Together

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Francis Pryor

I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that the world around us is in danger of disintegration. The trouble is, nobody seems at all clear about what we should do to put things back on track. We saw this quite … Continue reading →

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Sorry About the Silence

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Francis Pryor

I apologise for the long gap between this and my last blog post. Of course just over a fortnight ago (Feb 23-4) Russia invaded Ukraine. I think history will judge it to have been one of the most evil actions … Continue reading →

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Autumn in a Light Touch Garden

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Francis Pryor

First a quick word of apology: I’m so sorry that I haven’t updated this blog for almost seven weeks, but life has been rather frantic of late. However, I had my booster Covid jab a few days ago and I … Continue reading →

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Our Garden Opens on Sept 25-26th, 2021!

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Francis Pryor

This is just a short piece to announce that we’re opening our garden for the last weekend of September – in a week’s time. Yes, it has been a horrible season for weeds and somehow we’ve managed to get more … Continue reading →

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A Torrid Early Summer

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Francis Pryor

Gosh this has been a strange summer and I don’t know if readers have shared our inability to tie down which day of the week we are currently living through. Yesterday was Friday, but all day Maisie and I were … Continue reading →

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