I fell in love with gardening during lockdown, similar to a lot of people – I discovered a newfound appreciation for the outdoor space we had as we spent more and more time outside in the glorious weather.

I started to grow some vegetables from seed (pumpkins…wow they can get BIG!) and quickly decided that we needed a veg patch.

As well as the pumpkins, I grew tomatoes, potatoes, sprouts and some lettuce.  I started devouring Gardener’s World on a regular basis and towards the end of the year, I developed a flower border with some nice perennials.  Given it was late on in the year, the focus really was on evergreen so that we’d have some winter interest.

Then at the start of 2021, I found cut flowers!  I’ve always loved having fresh flowers in the house, but having only just started gardening, the one border I had was a little sparse, to say the least, and didn’t really have anything in that I could cut from. Read More