I am delighted to announce that Lavender the Hare, the 5ft leporine that I have decorated for The Cotswold Hare Trail 2017, will be spending the summer at Fosseway Garden Centre in Moreton-in-Marsh. Fosseway Garden Centre Cotswold Hare Trail 2017 I believe that she is there already although I… Read More »Lavender's Location ~ Cotswold Hare Trail 2017
The 5ft hare is almost ready to play her part in The 2017 Cotswold Hare Trail. One more coat of varnish is all she requires. I hope that she takes to life in the public eye just as well as she has coped with being a part of our busy… Read More »Sneaky Peeks ~ 27th February 2017
There is a giant hare in my greenhouse! I’ve been chosen as one of the artists selected to decorate a giant hare for the Cotswold Hare Trail 2017! I am thrilled and honoured and…..I’ve got my work cut out. Follow my progress @nicolahopegardener on Instagram. I will… Read More »Cotswold Hare Trail 2017
A series of really rather unfortunate and pretty horrible stuff happened to me over the summer. I am sure I will be able to write about it all in greater detail sometime but now is not that time. I can confidently write that if I were not a gardener,… Read More »Gardening as Therapy ~ 5th December 2016
I watched as three hard frosts turned my Dahlias from stately ladies to swampy rags and I lost my nerve. I dug up the tubers and they are now upside down, drying out in a cool room. I couldn’t face losing them. I couldn’t face a winter of fretting…..were the… Read More »Update in The Great Dahlia Experiment 2016-2017
In one garden I am playing it safe In another garden I am being very brave. I am being especially brave in garden #2 because it is my garden. My own Dahlia tubers will stay in the ground all winter. 625kg of horticultural grit arrives on Tuesday. I will mulch… Read More »The Great Dahlia Experiment 12016-17
