Long Mizzle Garden

 Hello m' chewy beavers, Well, it'd be nice to say my blogging absence has been due to this week's Chelsea Flower Show, but it was in fact another Lulu (Lulu Urquhart along with Adam Hunt) that won Best Show Garden. 'Rewilding Britain Landscape' incorporated weeds, a wild meadow, dead foliage AND can you believe it.... an actual beaver dam, made with twigs pre-chewed by real beavers. I mean, really, what's not to love about that!!! As a big beaver lover, I think it was genius. I wish I had thought of it. 'Is it a garden' is as boring a question as 'but is it art'. It was planted, it was made, it looks beautiful. Just let it be. Bring on the beavers. As regular readers will know, I'm such an en pointe, en vogue, le chic kind of girl (yeah right!), so of course I already have my own beaver dam, of sorts. Oh, I may not have the gentle trickling water or beaver soundtrack,  but I am custodian of an old Cornish dry stone wall, so that's rathe...

 Hello m' ospreys,   Just a quickie this week - I'm in the midst of revising for my next round of RHS exams - attempting to learn endless lists of latin names and garden design principles. That doesn't mean we can't have a nice cuppa and biscuit break though does it!?!  Let's go... After all the scorching sun, the garden has had a bit of welcome mizzle these past couple of days. It bothers me not. In fact, mizzle is my favourite weather to garden in... and sit drinking coffee. The neighbours must think I'm a right weirdo, what with that and Nude Day (the first Monday of every month). The Confedgery is limbering up.... (that's an invented cross between a fence and hacked down conifer hedge...  absolutely nothing to do with the Confederacy) It must have sensed the arrival of the US president and other world leaders for the G7 summit. The skies of Cornwall have been alive with Osprey helicopters, flying in close formation. There's currently a big naval pr...

 Hello, ready for another weekly update from Long Mizzle Garden? Let's tea and gossip... Sorry, no slow-motion, grand shots of me emerging breathless from a helicopter here. This little patch of sea thrift (above, bottom left) was grown from seed a few years ago now. It seems to flower on and off all year through. I will be dividing this and putting some in our own  patch of Cornish dry stone wall. Some seeds will also be sprinkled in little nooks and crannies. After a cold snap at the start the week, the sun came out as promised on Wednesday and the river lilies (Hesperantha coccinea) have since been having an un-masked party en masse, dancing about the border. I don't think you can ever have enough river lilies! Like the sea thrift, they grow in clumps, but are quicker to spread. They also happily self seed and make a great cut flower to bring into the house. Notice anything missing from the old pond bed? It got too cold and wet for the succulents so I brought them in to the...