Welcome to my blog!

Here, I journal the transformation of our tiny London backyard into a dream garden. I hope you will like it!

A dream garden, for me, is an outdoor space filled with rich colours and seductive scents, offering beautiful flowers, interesting textures and tasty morsels for our delectation. Also a source of nourishment for the local wildlife - birds, butterflies and bees. A space to enjoy with my SO, friends, family, and, of course, our cats. Somewhere to sit and have coffee, or even a meal, and a tiny patch of grass to lie on in the fleeting sunshine of the English summer. And, we're almost there...

Unless stated otherwise, all photos are by me (or my SO) and are clickable.

Monday, 21 February 2011

White crocus

This is the second plant to flower this February.  A little white crocus.  I planted the bulbs in a terracotta pot which also contained a tiny evergreen foliage plant, and some winter-flowering cyclamen. This winter has been so harsh here, that the hardy cyclamen died.  Still, spring is inexorably on its way, as evidenced by other bulbs shooting up from the earth towards the sky.  Those in the pot behind the crocus are Dutch tulips.


Thursday, 17 February 2011

Uplifting

This cheerful primrose in our front garden has been planted by the previous owners of the house.  I'm not much into yellow (nor orange) flowers, but even I have to admit that they help lift our spirits in this miserable post-winter/pre-spring season.