🩺 Plant Hospital: Rose Recovery Diary 🌹 Every garden has its challenges, and this week our roses became the latest patients in Plant Hospital. When they arrived, they were showing signs of black spot, a common fungal disease that can weaken roses if left untreated. Rather than giving up on

🌻 A Little Bit of Beauty to Start the Week Some flowers have a way of making you stop, even if it’s just for a few seconds. This sunflower has been doing exactly that every time I walk through the garden. No matter how busy the day gets, I can’t help but smile when I see it. It’s amazing t

🌿 I Propagated a Hydrangea… Using Dry Sticks! Sometimes the simplest gardening experiments are the ones that surprise you the most. At the end of winter, I pruned one of our hydrangeas and decided to try something incredibly simple. I took a few of the pruned stems, pushed them straight in

🌸 Top 3 Flowers That Bloom for Months 🌿 If I had to recommend just three flowers to someone who wanted a colourful garden all summer, these would be near the top of my list. After spending years around plants, I’ve learnt that some flowers give you a fantastic display for a couple of weeks… w

🧪 Patient 3 | The Sideways Tomato Experiment 🍅🌱 One of my favourite things about gardening is that there’s always something new to learn. A few weeks ago, I planted a tomato sideways to see if burying more of the stem would encourage extra shoots to develop. Today, I checked on Patient 3…

💜 Midweek Bloom | Campanula There are some flowers that don’t need to compete for attention. They simply bloom, quietly filling the garden with colour, and somehow make you stop for a moment. For me, Campanula is one of those flowers. Its rich purple blooms bring a softness to the garde

🥒 We Went From One Cucumber… to Seven! A few weeks ago, finding our very first cucumber felt like a huge achievement. Today, we walked into the garden and harvested seven cucumbers in one go… and there are still another five growing on the vines! 🌿 It’s funny how gardening works. You spend

🥒 Our First Marrow Harvest of the Year One of my favourite things about gardening is that every harvest comes with a little lesson. Today Mum showed us which marrows were ready to pick and which ones needed another few days on the plant. Harvesting at the right time doesn’t just give you the

🌽 I’ve Never Seen Our Sweetcorn Grow Like This Before! When we planted our sweetcorn this year, I hoped for a good crop… but I definitely wasn’t expecting it to grow like this! This is our sweetcorn growing in Birmingham, UK, and almost every plant is now producing silks, which means the cobs

🌸 Plant Spotlight: Non-Stop Begonia Some plants quietly earn a permanent place in your garden… and for me, the Non-Stop Begonia is one of them. What makes this one even more special is that it’s actually last year’s plant. I wasn’t expecting it to come back, but seeing those first flowers ope

🥒 A small harvest… but a big moment. Today I picked the very first cucumber from our allotment. 🌱 These plants went into the ground a little later than the ones in our city garden, so I’ve been checking on them every time I visit, hoping to spot that first cucumber ready to pick. Today was