Love My Garden

Gardening blog featuring a medium sized traditional English garden with mature trees, shrubs, lawn, herbaceous borders, vegetable patch, greenhouse and containers. All photos have been taken in my garden.

Friday, 31 August 2012

Getting Rid of Slugs and Snails

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It's official - we've just had the wettest summer for one hundred years and the slugs in my garden are loving it. Both flowering pla...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Growing Peas for the First Time

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This year has been a poor year for vegetable growing. The prolonged cold wet weather resulted in a very poor salad potato crop and the runn...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Attract Butterflies to Your Garden

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There have been quite a few articles in the media this year detailing the decline in butterfly numbers. The adverse weather conditions we ha...

Monday, 25 June 2012

Bacterial Canker on Ornamental Cherry Tree

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My weeping cherry tree has suffered a bacterial canker infection and was looking a sorry sight with shrivelled brown leaves and a horrible...

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Sunday, 27 May 2012

Welsh Poppies (Meconopsis cambrica)

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Today I spotted the first flowers of the Welsh Poppy in my garden. This is a self seeding, short lived perennial which will grow in practica...

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Saxifraga urbium (London Pride)

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Saxifraga urbium (commonly called London Pride) is a rock plant originating from the Pyrenees. It was a popular plant a few years ago, being...

Monday, 30 April 2012

Dicentra Spectabilis (Bleeding Heart)

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This attractive plant was introduced into Britain in 1816 from Siberia and Japan. It is a graceful hardy perennial with arching sprays of he...

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About Me

Jeanne: I first became interested in gardening when I was 10 years old. Part of our rear garden was designated as a vegetable patch and I earned my pocket money by helping dad to dig it over and plant our vegetables. Dad gave me a small area to grow my own veg and I planted herbs and strawberries. These are still favourites for me to grow in my own garden today. I love gardening. It's such fun to create different looks and experiment with different plants. My garden is not a manicured show garden but I love it and everything in it. There is a good variety of plants which I'm always looking to expand. I cannot visit a garden centre without buying something. The problem is I don't always think about where I can fit it in until after I've bought it. The garden is always evolving and changing and will never be finished - that's the beauty of gardening. My favourite time is when I've mowed the lawn and finished weeding and tidying and I can sit down with a nice glass of wine or a long cold beer and just relax and enjoy the fruits of my labour.

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