At this time of the year, you’d really expect the garden to know winter is well on its way.
The clocks have now gone back, and we have much shorter days to work in our plots. At Driftwood, the big autumn clear-up is well under way now, after having to hold fire a little due to the recent TV location filming. The large conifer at the top of the garden had grown really large and needed a trim to bring it back down to size. In all the 20 years we have lived here, I have only had it professionally cut by a tree surgeon once. I contacted the same guys and they returned recently to cut out t
Can you believe it, we are fast approaching the end of the month with the clocks going back on the 27th. Working days in the garden will be much shorter days and the weather is inevitably going to get much colder. Are you prepared? I think I am well ahead of the game, fortunately! Fingers crossed.
Despite closing the garden gate back at the beginning of August, I had a request recently from a Belgian couple, who were holidaying in Sussex, to ask if they could visit the garden.
I MENTIONED a photo shoot for the Sunday Times last week but a shoot also took place in the garden a couple of weeks before and the photographer, Jon Santa Cruz, has kindly allowed me to use a few of the images he took, for my personal use, on my website and these Argus pieces. Hence a better than usual image of me this week.
Autumn is well on its merry way now as we move into September tomorrow.
It hardly seems possible that it is almost a year since the crew from BBC Gardeners’ World visited the garden and spent the day filming. I was so lucky that the weather was on our side and I loved the short film they produced, which was finally broadcast on March 22 this year, in episode 2 of the current series.
I seem to have developed a great love for hydrangeas, they always grow well in my seaside garden.
It has been a good start to my open garden at Driftwood, we have had some visitors every day this past week, with a large group last Monday.
This weekend there are five gardens across the county that you could visit with the National Garden Scheme.
