1000s of New Trees to Fight Climate Change
The Woodland Trust On Saturday 30th November 2019, I was privileged to join The Woodland Trust at The Big Climate Fightback event where they aimed to plant as many as…
Our Trees!
I love trees. They give us so much - shade on a hot day, shelter on a wet day, something to climb, fruit to eat, air to breath….. Beautiful all year round…
Help me support 1 million people in UK’s largest mass tree planting campaign
“The Woodland Trust are urging volunteers to grab a spade and tackle the climate crisis” (The Guardian 23 September 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/23/call-for-1m-people-join-uk-biggest-mass-tree-planting-campaign ) This necessary and worthy event is part of…
How green is your Garden Centre?
What’s the greenest shop you know? I would not be surprised if lots of you said ‘garden centre’. I wonder if you think I would agree? I was recently asked…
Garden Salvage Chic on TV!
This is fantastic! In June I posted an idea about sustainability titled ‘Garden Salvage Chic’. In July we filmed this for ITV This Morning and turned the idea into reality. Demonstrating how simple,…
Mobile Gardens for Chelsea and other thoughts……
Who watched BBC1 David Attenborough’s Climate Change - The Facts. If you didn’t you really must. Here’s the link. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00049b1 After watching this programme I had every faith that 'every bit we…
Garden Salvage Chic
We have become very accustomed these days to throwing away old stuff to build sparkling new things. And it’s the same when it comes to garden design. It breaks my…
Fashion, sustainability and why I buy second hand
I am going to talk about something other than gardening today - my love of clothes. But did you know the fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in…
Frogfest High Wycombe
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire is a old market town, steeped in over a 1000-years of history and famed for its' furniture industry. A town with innovation and entrepreneurism in its heart, a…
Creating an Urban Greenscape
We are all very aware how urgently we need to address environmental issues. I often hear people remark it is the responsibility of the EU, governments and councils to take…