Gallery
Photographs of the garden as it develops
Spring 2013
Row 1: Blueberry flowers - Fan trained sweet cherry - Forced rhubarb
Row 2: Blueberry in bud - Rocambole - Wild garlic
Row 2: Blueberry in bud - Rocambole - Wild garlic
Winter 2012-13
Row 1: 3 or 4 inches of snow in the garden - Twisted hazel in the snow - Blueberry in the snow
Autumn 2012
Row 1: Blueberry in pot with rocket flowers behind - Peppermint for tea getting established - Japanese anemones with Japanese wineberry behind
Row 2: Oca leaves - Dried teasel flower - Mulberry leaves turning yellow
Row 2: Oca leaves - Dried teasel flower - Mulberry leaves turning yellow
Summer 2012
Row 1: Grafted apple tree - Rocambole - Redcurrants
Row 2: Teasel flower - Salsify flower - Japanese wineberry fruit
Row 2: Teasel flower - Salsify flower - Japanese wineberry fruit
Spring 2012
Row 1: Babbington's leeks under apple tree - Nottingham cob - Red veined sorrel and salad burnet
Row 2: Pear tree in blossom - Lemon balm beneath raspberry - Wild garlic
Row 3: Spanish bluebells
Row 2: Pear tree in blossom - Lemon balm beneath raspberry - Wild garlic
Row 3: Spanish bluebells
Winter 2011-2012
Row 1: Shitake mushroom log fruiting - Overwintering ladybirds - Angelica behind raspberry canes
Row 2: Chives return - Sorrel shoots - Lemon balm's back
Row 2: Chives return - Sorrel shoots - Lemon balm's back
Autumn 2011
Row 1: Blue tit perched in the holly tree safe from cats - Mashua seeds - Mashua in flower (5 Nov)
Summer 2011
Row 1: Salsify seed head - Wild patch with borage flowers (click for more detail) - Redsleeves apple ripening early
Row 2: Early ripening Nottingham cobnuts - Flowering apple mint - Lavender flowers
Row 3: Bee enjoying apple mint flowers - Nottingham cobnuts ready to pick - Rocambole with swelling bulbils
Row 2: Early ripening Nottingham cobnuts - Flowering apple mint - Lavender flowers
Row 3: Bee enjoying apple mint flowers - Nottingham cobnuts ready to pick - Rocambole with swelling bulbils
Spring 2011
Row 1: Bee on chive flower - Karaka blackberry flower and early fruit - Bee landing on quince flower
Row 2: Rhubarb jungle - Common frog on rhubarb leaf - Wild garlic in flower
Row 2: Rhubarb jungle - Common frog on rhubarb leaf - Wild garlic in flower
Winter 2010-2011
Row 1: Blackcurrant cutting with swelling buds - Allium shooting up - Goji berry coming back into leaf
Row 2: Tiny self-seeded allium seedlings - Red veined sorrel next to Salad burnet - Twisted hazel catkin with small female flower above
Row 2: Tiny self-seeded allium seedlings - Red veined sorrel next to Salad burnet - Twisted hazel catkin with small female flower above
Autumn 2010
Row 1: Comfrey leaves fading - Dried teasel heads - Last whitecurrants in late September
Row 2: Nasturtiums going strong - Bee shelter ready for a dust off - Quince tree leaf node
Row 2: Nasturtiums going strong - Bee shelter ready for a dust off - Quince tree leaf node
Summer 2010
Row 1: Teasel heads - Stella cherries - Abundant Morello cherries ripening
Row 2: Saving seeds - Gooseberry harvest - Ripening pears
Row 3: Ripening blueberries - Salsify "Sandwich Island Mammoth" - Teasel head with a small snail
Row 2: Saving seeds - Gooseberry harvest - Ripening pears
Row 3: Ripening blueberries - Salsify "Sandwich Island Mammoth" - Teasel head with a small snail
Spring 2010
Row 1: Bulbs pushing up through the mulch - Goji berry buds coming out - first flowers
Row 2: Rhubarb emerging (click for video) - Currant bush coming back into leaf - variegated lemon balm
Row 3: Ladybird scaling a pear tree - Sweet cicely catching the evening sun - Pear tree in blossom (17 April)
Row 4: Pear blossom visited by a bee - Apple blossom - Quince flower opening
Row 5: Rhubarb ready for harvest - Sour cherry blossom - Ox-eye daisies
Row 2: Rhubarb emerging (click for video) - Currant bush coming back into leaf - variegated lemon balm
Row 3: Ladybird scaling a pear tree - Sweet cicely catching the evening sun - Pear tree in blossom (17 April)
Row 4: Pear blossom visited by a bee - Apple blossom - Quince flower opening
Row 5: Rhubarb ready for harvest - Sour cherry blossom - Ox-eye daisies
Winter 2009-2010
Row 1: First day of winter - more snow in January - view from the top of overgrown Leylandii
Autumn 2009
Row 1: Teasels providing good ground cover - harvesting sunflower seeds - planting strawberries
Row 2: Nasturtiums going strong still in Nov - rhubarb dying back - salad burnett outlasting mints in Nov
Row 3: One of many garden spiders (Araneus diadematus) - acid cherry changing colour - comfrey still full of life
Row 2: Nasturtiums going strong still in Nov - rhubarb dying back - salad burnett outlasting mints in Nov
Row 3: One of many garden spiders (Araneus diadematus) - acid cherry changing colour - comfrey still full of life
Summer 2009
Row 1: Existing pear - Sweet cherry (Stella) - Black mulberry
Row 2: Cordon apple (Blue pearmain) - Red filbert and rhubarb - Std apple (Tydeman's late)
Row 3: Std acid cherry (Morello) - Tayberry - Bush apple (Redsleeves)
Row 4: Fruit on existing pear - Recycled raised bed - Cobnut (Kentish cob) and comfrey behind
Row 5: Bumble bee making the most of flowering herbs - Honey bee - Common crab spider hiding in a rose
Row 2: Cordon apple (Blue pearmain) - Red filbert and rhubarb - Std apple (Tydeman's late)
Row 3: Std acid cherry (Morello) - Tayberry - Bush apple (Redsleeves)
Row 4: Fruit on existing pear - Recycled raised bed - Cobnut (Kentish cob) and comfrey behind
Row 5: Bumble bee making the most of flowering herbs - Honey bee - Common crab spider hiding in a rose
