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
Tag: working from home
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
July – The Sunflower Diary
I've never grown sunflowers so I had no idea what to expect back in April when I planted those out of date seeds and the speed with which they grew surprised me. I knew sunflowers were tall but I've never had the opportunity to watch something grow that quickly before. Fast forward from April to … Continue reading July – The Sunflower Diary
July
I'm going to split July into two entries - first our new raised bed and all the flowers that started blooming and secondly the sunflowers. I'll start with the raised bed we bought at the end of June. At the same time I ordered some plug plants so we would have something that had a … Continue reading July
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
The Garrett Garden 