We have one area of the garden that we romantically call 'The Wilderness'.

Every year we have a glut of rose petals that usually get composted but this year the rose petals are being put to very good and special use

Last year I attended a super workshop at Langdon led by Mandy Rickard called Weeds and Wildflowers. At the end of the morning we shared...

It has been a very slow start for the garden and me (thanks to a nasty dose of covid and another knee injury) this year. Thankfully the...

by Langdon gardener, Gail Last year in one of my bored moments I decided it would be a great idea to create a Cut Flower Border. Needless...

by Gail Rowlands (Langdon gardener) What do you do when one of your bosses decides to construct a beautiful path through a scrubby bit of...

Composting, wilding and trying something new

Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...

Oh yes – this is VERY welcome. Warmer and finally, drier. Our boggy, saturated ground is at last getting a breather – and so are we. It’s...

My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...

We have lots of these burrowing furry fellows here at Langdon, and in the past week the two of them have had me thinking and keeping me...

My very own home-made compost – PROUD! Last Friday I had such a brilliant afternoon. On a whim I decided it was time to empty out the...

We’ve finally finished the raised beds we’ve been working on – they’re all filled with many barrow-loads of wonderful organic stuff,...

In spring this year I realised that the lovely plants we had planted a year ago beside the lake were about to get completely swamped by a...