While this blog is primarily about my garden and its effect on my mental health, I wanted to share the other great love of my life, which also has a major influence on my wellbeing. I have been a scrapbooker for many, many years. My love of photography sparked a "what do I do with … Continue reading Creative Sanity
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January
Winter still hasn't really hit us hard here - but we have had much more frost and a few flurries of snow. The soil in the raised beds is solid and the lettuce and parsley had given up the ghost by the end of the month. The strawberries don't seem to notice or care about … Continue reading January
December
The first frosts arrived in December. Not many, but the odd morning of crisp white shimmer on the grass and bulbs. December is another month I rarely see the garden so it was lovely to be here. Feeding the birds, watching the skies full of clouds and rain. December would normally be a manic month, … Continue reading December
November
We have a cherry blossom tree in our garden, it's gorgeous but it's huge. This year growing so many vegetables and flowers has made us realise how much shade this tree throws onto the garden so we decided to give it a bit of a trim this year so towards the end of October we … Continue reading November
October
October was a funny old month. It felt warmer than September and despite the evenings drawing in we still spent some time out in the garden. We took a week off work at the beginning of October to do some tidying up in the garden - just starting to get everything ready for Autumn. We … Continue reading October
September – summer draws to a close
September was a good month in the garden but the weather didn't give us that final splurge of summer we sometimes get in England. The wind and rain didn't play a major role but neither did the sun. It was getting cooler every day and those balmy evenings we spent dead heading and mooching round … Continue reading September – summer draws to a close
August – More of the same
Looking back on my photographs for August I can see that it rained. A lot. This makes me happy for two reasons - photographing rain drops on leaves and petals is wonderful and secondly the success of watering the garden is vastly improved if most of the water is falling out of the sky and … Continue reading August – More of the same
June
June started much as May ended, me working and husband still on furlough. The weather had started to change a little, it was marginally wetter and we had less days of wall to wall sunshine. To be honest I didn't mind too much. I don't like the really hot weather and because I was working … Continue reading June
May – Part Two
May was definitely a month of two halves for me. The first two weeks were spent in much the same way I'd spent April. Furloughed and spending most of my time in the garden. Everything was coming to life and starting to flower and it was a fabulous place to be. I'd stopped watching television … Continue reading May – Part Two
May – Part One
So March and April were months of adjustment for the entire country. Everyone was learning to cope in a variety of ways. Most of the office based work force of the country retired to their homes and battled with broadband, setting up desks at home, finding a quiet space to work, juggling children being at … Continue reading May – Part One
The Garrett Garden 