Gardening Blog

It might seem like an obvious topic, but as our climate shifts, I think it's becoming one of the most important conversations we can have as gardeners. This summer has been a constant battle to keep everything alive through heatwave after heatwave. It's honestly made me question my timing in starting a gardening business. Not enough to make me consider giving it up — I love this work too much for that. But it has made me rethink how I approach things: which plants I can reali

I never thought I’d be the kind of person who gets excited about gardening. Yet here I am— in my little London garden, giddy at the thought of the tomatoes I will yield this year. This all started with a simple thought, and a little bit of envy of my sister who figured out what she loved and went for it: maybe I could also grow my own vegetables. Not on a farm, not even in a big suburban garden—but in a modest little patch of outdoor space. The Reality of a “Small Garden” Whe

Seed storage has a funny way of getting out of hand, at least it did for me. I’ve been gardening for over a decade now, and every year I never learn that there is such a thing as too many seeds… Well, sort of. I can’t help but get excited by the seed candy catalogues that come through my door and end up making many impulse buys of seeds I had no intention of growing. This year has been especially hard to resist that urge, after having grown so little last growing season due t

It feels like more and more of us reach a point in life where we stop and think… is this actually making me happy? For me, the answer was always pretty simple. My happy place has always been outdoors, and more specifically, in the garden. But this journey didn’t start in Staffordshire, or even in the UK. It started over a decade ago, on the other side of the world. Where it all began I found myself in Australia, working in organic vegetable gardens, growing everything from tr