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Hall and Main Stairs as they are now Our hallway certainly was. As we moved in circa 2006, our builder proudly showed off the wooden...

Our Gardens in May Look Fresh and Full May is the time when many of us start to lose it with the garden. In early spring everything is...

Rustic Pot Planted with two Colours of Nemesia It's that time of year again. Faced with the challenge of creating our summer pot display,...

Glazed Pot Chosen to Suit the Planting Painted pots are having something of a renaissance. I don't mean the heavily glazed bright blue...

Sea of Blue Muscari, with Bronze Heuchera and Tulips April's the month when we emerge from the long grey of winter and early spring. Even...

I want to buy some cushions for the sofas in the sitting room. Don't get get wrong, we do have four deep maroon velvet ones, that happily...

Most Gardeners live in constant turmoil wanting flowers for bunches for the house or for friends yet facing the overwhelming urge to keep...

This fruit cake recipe couldn't be simpler. It's adapted from one that my late Auntie Margaret gave me many moons ago. I use this recipe...

Yellow and Cerise Pink Theme for the Front Border (with a bit of deep blue creeping in) We eat with our eyes but do we garden with them?...

Cottage Garden in June Cottage gardens have been around since the middle ages. Admittedly since 500AD there may have been some changes,...

A Comfortable Corner of My Modern Country Kitchen Does a modern country home in a quiet English village have much in common with an...

Our Woodland Walk in Summer We all have some shade in the garden and for most of us, it can be a problem when it comes to growing...

Now is a great time to be thinking about changing your plot, big or small. I was left with little choice some fifteen years ago when I...

Thirteen years ago, or there about, my family moved into our new build house on the edge of a village in Northamptonshire. It's in a...