Garden Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about garden on BlogRolly.

• Grow your own; make your own — Tired of recalls and dodgy salad bags? How to grow spinach in a polytunnel is in this post, with library seed packets, 4
• Wildlife — Ever seen a fox sprint along the terrace ridgeline? That was our summer opener. This garden wildlife photo roundup from
• Going native — Ever noticed nasturtiums bursting into life in October? I left ours to self-seed for years, only moving odd seedlings. B
• And autumn continues — Autumn refuses to hurry in my Old Garden in Bristol, cold, rainy and blustery most days. I note honeysuckle laden with d
• Squashed — A small wildlife experiment in the back bed this autumn. I left our carved Halloween pumpkins in the southern corner to
• End of the year — Last day of the year brought the first proper frost to my Bristol garden. I've watched nasturtiums finally succumb while
• One week of the year — New house, new garden in South East Wales, and a quiet blog while plans take shape. I've left our tiny urban plot and in
• Starting from scratch — A soggy, stripped lawn felt like an inland beach when we moved in. I've brought in landscapers to plan the new garden, o
• A chimera — A surprising chimera appeared in the new beds. The shoot had grasslike blades and broad heart shaped leaves, like two pl
• In bloom — A surprise sunflower surrounded by wheat actually flowered, and bumblebees loved it. In this garden diary update I final
• Skeletons — I got obsessed with the delicate veins left behind when hydrangea petals fade, so I tried making my own hydrangea skelet
• How To Grow a Mango Seed — I stuck a supermarket mango seed in water just to see what would happen. This is my slightly chaotic attempt at growing
• Black-Eyed Susan — A seasonal reflection on black-eyed susans, growth, and persistence, using the flower as a symbol of quiet strength.
• Diggety-Dig — A playful, rhythmic piece centred on digging and repetition, blending physical labour with reflection and quiet satisfac
• Tomato! — A deceptively simple meditation on tomatoes, ripeness, and timing, revealing how attentiveness transforms the ordinary.
• May Garden — A grounded reflection on gardening in May, observing growth, patience, and the quiet lessons learned from tending living
• The Big Gardening Post — A comprehensive look at a year in the garden: what worked, what failed, and what was learned along the way. This is hand
• Let the 2026 gardening season begin! — A grounded, practical reflection on preparing for a new gardening year not just plants, but patience, learning, mistakes