It’s only fair that I give you a helping hand to try and work out how our landscaping is shaping up. Given that there are only sticks in the ground you can neither tell what it is nor see what Jamie our landscaper was seeing when he put together our... This dinky flower on our Leptosermum Huia was the one bright spot in the garden this weekend. Apart from this is was simply hard graft, rain and lots of pain.We managed to get the final tree holes dug and planted. Then came the tricky bit to put in the stakes to keep... Although a little earlier than I was expecting our second delivery of trees came on Friday. It’s been all hands and paws on deck for tree planting as these trees came bare root so there was no time to waste before getting them into the ground.Given there was 40... The bassets and I have had a very productive afternoon. Exhausting but very satisfying and we had glorious weather to brighten our day.After a couple of wet weekends it was important to restart the gorse harvest. We’ve got trees to put in but can’t do so... I’m always looking for inspiration for our garden. Looking at other people’s gardening success makes it a whole heap easier to keep the vision for our own garden and landscaping alive. It was after reading about the gardens at the Chateau de Villandry in... 