Videos
On this page you can find links to videos on my YouTube channel. These videos include virtual visits to my garden, demonstrations for various growing activities and video from my walks.
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Simple Growing Projects for Tired Gardeners
Gardening can be as easy and low-energy as sitting at a table and planting up a pot for your windowsill. Try potting on plants from a supermarket living basil to have fun learning a new skill that will keep your in fresh basil for months.
Bean sprouts are the quickest, easiest ways to grow your own food. You don't need a garden or even a windowsill and compost, just some edible seeds and an old jar.
Learn how to dry your own herbs for a cupboard full of flavour to last throughout the year.
Learn how to grow your own windowsill salads and you'll always be able to access the freshest possible greens, even if you don't have a garden.
Visit My Garden Virtually
Apple blossom and birds nesting, bees, cats and dandelions: the garden is full of life and, a little at a time, I'm beginning to tackle the more urgent jobs.
Let me show you around my February garden. I hadn't been able to get out for a while and was getting cabin fever, so when I woke to blue skies I just had to get out. The snow had covered all the mess and jobs that needed doing and everything looked magical. It was such a lift to the spirits.
When it's winter, or if you don't have space or energy for growing outside, there is always the wonderful world of houseplants to keep you growing.
Let me show you around my garden in early December. The combination of a wet dark November and my ongoing recovery from a chest infection in July has prevented me from getting out much, but December has brought sunshine and flowers to lift my spirits!
Let me show you around my garden as it is after 3 months with very little attention from an ailing gardener. Autumn is always a time for clearing up a bit and it's not as I'd like it but there are always small delights to draw the attention and lift the soul.
Let me show you around my garden at the height of the fruit and veg season.
Settle down with a cup of tea and let me show you around my garden, warts and all. It has been a source of joy, fun, relaxation and healing as well as of frustration and sadness during my recovery from fibromyalgia.
Virtual Walks
Join me on my favourite walk through the fields to our local woods. On a rainy day there's rarely anyone else around and I can lose myself in the bird-song, the patter of raindrops and the sigh of the wind through grass.
A brief visit to my local woodland in October. Time for a breath and some tranquility.
Watch a family of cygnets follow mum back to the nest and a young foal browsing with its family by the canal on a lush, green, June evening.
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