Giant puffball

A wonky, wonderful summer

Autumn has officially arrived and to mark the occasion I thought it would be fun to reminisce a little. Here are a few of my favourite moments, relating to some of the blog posts I published this summer, that just go to prove that life certainly is like a box of chocolates… starting with the…

Arches and cutting garden

The pleasures of Chanticleer, Part 2

If you caught last week’s post on Chanticleer, I hope you were left craving more. Chanticleer seemed to me to have a never-ending supply of gardening ideas. A water feature that mimics a giant sarcophagus/banquet table, evergreen mastadons and a cutting garden to rival Giverny? Oh, yeah! The Ruin Garden The “ruin” in the Ruin…