The Cardiff Cwtch - Welsh Food, Fashion and LifestyleLast week I finally got to transfer one of my Avocado seeds into a pot. Like a mother waving a kid off to University it was kind of a bittersweet, nerve-wracking moment removing those cocktail sticks, tossing the cup of water and transferring it into a very grown up pot 🙂 And, I kid you not, […]
It’s been a looooong slog, but our garden finally looks like a garden. Four months ago our back door opened out onto a very muddy slope. And when I say mud, I mean sludge. Sludgy, sticky, wellie-sucking mud. We dug at it, raked at it, rotivated it until our backs were sore… and then we kind […]
I’m definitely becoming more and more of a Pamela Isley-esque crazy plant lady these days. And they don’t even have to be flowering plants. Yes, I’ll always be a sucker for a bunch of roses, but these days I’m more likely to gush over bright green leaves than blossoming buds. Our new house is slowly […]
British motorways and highways aren’t particularly pleasant places (Hey I’m looking at you, M25… Grr…), but at this time of year the metal crash barriers along the central reservation and the banks beside the hard-shoulder are bursting with Wild Daisies – or if you want to get all scientific about it; Oxeyes. They’re one of my favourite things […]
I’ve killed a lot of plants in the past. Full on planticide. There was the weird looking one I had on my windowsill as a kid… but it didn’t flower so I neglected it until it shrivelled and dried out (it was a Cactus, by the way. Yep. A Cactus dried out.). Then there was the […]
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