There are many benefits to growing your own vegetables. Financial, quality of product and the satisfaction of growing them yourself. Raised beds are a brilliant way to establish a vegetable…
Garden
I love rustic home décor elements and have wanted a Birch bark covered flowerpot for ages. But when I first tried pot decoration with bark I could not get it…
Did you know that air plants are powerful air purifiers? Or that they take up water and nutrients through their leaves? These fascinating plants are found growing on trees and…
It’s easy to forage a beautiful hedgerow bouquet and now is a perfect time before the hedges are cut.
I am delighted to be working with Bostik as a Bostik Blogger. Each month the Bostik Bloggers are set a theme with the challenge to create a craft that our…
Hedgehogs are one of our best-loved mammals here in the UK, and most people would be delighted to find one snuffling around their flower beds.
I have no idea who first came up with the notion of seed bombs, but in the last couple of years I have seen numerous mentions of them as a…
In this simple tutorial we make cute fairy garden lights from acorn caps and LED bulbs and show you how to adapt a garden solar light to power them. Our…
In this easy to follow tutorial, we show you how to make a solar powered waterfall for a fairy garden.
We have built our own Swallow Cam using a Raspberry Pi so that we can watch the swallows in our shed raise and fledge their young.
We turned our simple home-made willow cone into a wonderful Succulent Christmas Tree. This wonderful centrepiece can be used both in the house and garden, and would also make a…
This willow cone is simple to make and could be used as a base for all sorts of crafts as well as making a wonderful, rustic plant support for the…