Don't look innocent with me.

The phone woke me this morning from a sound slumber.  It was my husband, his very early commute into the city already underway.  From my incoherent mumblings, he quickly gathered that I had not sprung out of bed upon his departure (a myth I strive to perpetuate), and instead had [...]

The garden is an integral part of my life, and consequently, it is difficult for me to imagine why anyone would wish to live without the joy of eating one’s own produce, watching a treasured cutting turn into a flourishing shrub, or sitting in the midst of one’s own creation on a warm spring evening [...]

Rome wasn't built in a day – Sissinghurst, UK

We all have our own perspective, and sometimes it’s hard to change it.  We may stare at a blank space in our garden for hours, days even; completely incapable of imagining anything other than the ubiquitous lawn or the odd garden gnome, then a friend comes [...]