Phyl's Blog

I think we planted the sunflowers a little too late in the season in our garden. We waited all summer for them to make an appearance and we...

Thomas planted a passion fruit tree in our garden over a year ago. At first I thought he was mad - this is Scotland after all. I was more th...

Aren't cornflowers the most beautiful blue colour?

I love the smell of roses - roses with a smell that is! I planted a beautiful white rose in my garden and found out, disappointingly, that i...

stinging nettles Originally uploaded by urtica It's been a bad week for nettles. As Léon mentioned in his blog the other day, he was alr...

Invasion of the daleks Originally uploaded by PhylB I'm beginning to wonder how Thomas ever managed to live in a flat - he's such a...

The garden in our new house is little more than a worn lawn surrounded by various muddy patches and some boring grey stone-filled borders ...

Goodbye to the scabby old trees Originally uploaded by PhylB When we moved into the house we decided this row of scabby old trees had to go...