Owdboggy's Blog archive

Planting up a trough!

Planting At last the exciting part. Buy yourself some plants suitable for planting...

A Sink Garden.

We found a number of these old Belfast type sinks around the garden. This is how...

Garden Tour April 2012

Thought you might like a look round the old homestead as it was at the beginning...

Making Plunge Beds in the Glasshouse

Building Staging. Plunge bed type The first stage was to construct a wooden framework....

My Alpine House.

Quite a while back now a friend came to visit and told us that an acquaintance of...

Photographic tour August 2011

This is a tour of the garden taken at the beginning of August 2011. Clematis x jouineana...

Refurbishing the Wildlife Pond

Some more of our Summer activities. Refurbishing the pond. At the beginning of this...

A New Crevice Garden and Alpine Lawn

I thought you might like to see what we got up to last year while we were off line. One...

Nothing to do with Gardening! A Story.

The Ashton Road Gang This is a true story, only the facts and the identity of the...

A job too far?

First of all some back ground. Quite a few years back we planted a set of Hornbeams...

What we started with 15 years ago.

After taking a stroll through the garden this June I thought you might like to see...

Our Garden in June 2010

This is a series of photographs showing what the garden looked like on the 1st of...