secret-gardener

My first colour challenge.... in one gallery Monday Red: The strawberry & cream petals of Rose 'Nostalgia' planted for my late mum. Tuesday Orange: Is one half laughing? One half aghast? Wednesday

My final foray into my first Colour Challenge - Violet. A great colour for plants - in particular foliage - but I resisted my horticultural (and puppy) obsession and looked farther afield to ... erm...

For these are my mountains And this is my glen The braes of my childhood Will know me again No land's ever claimed me Tho 'far I did roam For these are my mountains And I'm going home (James Copeland 1918

I caught this one at the end of a day at work. Lucky for my I always carry my camera with me, so I was able to capture it. Try also some of the other challenges: MarketFriday by @dswigle BwPhotoContest

This is our puppy Cobie on her 1st birthday, a few weeks back. We'd worn her out playing in the woods. She rarely smiles in pics, but we got this one of her (clearly panting) but it's close enough to a

Easy to make, lovely to look at and even nicer to eat! Berries laced cheesecake rippled with a contrasting vanilla cheesecake coming together for one not-too-sweet treat! As a kid, my Mum would always

That puppy is our gorgeous golden retriever Cobie, and those electric blue flowers are a Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides.) And luckily, for me, it was in our local woodland not my garden, so I was

These plants are old enough to have looked dinosaurs in the eye. (Okay, small ones - because they're relatively low-growing unless very aged!) I love the intensity of the green in the new growth, and the

Here I go again taking Cookies to the next level!! These beautiful Lemon burst cookies are very easy to make and you get tiger spot effect across the top of them by simply dropping the cookie dough into

I think I love watching these cookies bake, almost as much as I love eating them. In the oven they erupt like lava, turning from blobs covered in icing sugar to this incredibly textured cookie that's

I suddenly realise ORANGE may just be my subconscious go-to colour around the house! From tea-caddies; to beloved soup bowls and ornaments - all these picked up on travels in Copenhagen and nestled now

Pimp your cookies! Okay, ordinarily cookies are already treat enough... but if you needed to make them go further or wanted to turn a cheap pack of cookies into something more substantial, here's the foolproof

Is it just me? One half appears to be laughing, while the other is in shock... Amicable separation? From one half at least! Loving the colorchallenge (even if my brain wants to spell it 'colour'! Haha)

A show-stopping dessert made simple and a great twist on Apple Pie! The grand finale of any meal should be a knock-out dessert - and they don't get much more impressive than this... it's my fruitily-floral

Rosa 'Nostalgia' - like strawberries & cream in every petal. Good enough to eat! I gave this very bush to my mum for Mothering Sunday a few years before she died. She'd kept it in a pot near the house

Cobie’s first selfie … taken at the scene of the on-going crime – ‘scorch’ patches in our lawn! You’ve got two options with dog urine. Either deal with it as happens – by pouring water over the area they’ve

Soothing blues and zesty yellows – with a few shouty loud specimens in between! Just a sample of the flowers in my borders, from the pics I’m always snapping on my phone (some are from last season - their

From the hottest colours to the coolest tones. Just a sample of the flowers in my border, from the pics I have in my phone today (some are from last season - their first after being planted.) Let me know

I want to show you the areas of my garden, and perhaps need to do one post for each area – which I’ll get to, I promise… but for now, here’s an area I tackled yesterday. Progress in the back garden of

Light and fluffy but rich and decadent. Chocolate and Coffee combine to create this stunning Mocha Dessert Now it's no secret to anyone that knows me, that dessert is always the best part of any meal!