Category: Garden
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Rhubarb & Elderflower Gin Cake
Having made a rhubarb & elderflower gin; take 2 stalks of rhubarb, chop into 2cm chunks, put in a jar with 5 or 6 elderflower clusters, sprinkle on 1 oz of sugar and cover with gin. Gently shake the jar occasionally for the first 3days until the sugar is evenly dissolved, then leave to distill…
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A Private Art Class
I had a thoroughly delightful morning at Mill Meadows delivering a 2 hour art class that had been gifted as a birthday present. The weather could have been kinder, starting with high, blustery winds and ending in driving rain bursts, but we were fairly sheltered on the covered veranda. My students for the morning are…
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The Adventures of Cherry, the travelling cat.
Instagram @ kitty.in.a.van I do believe that I enjoyed that, our first trip away. We didn’t go too far and not for long, I think I could have done with more than one night to get properly settled in though. The trip up there was ok, as I’ve said before, I’ve had practise at riding…
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A Fermented Forage
A friend came over to learn how to make a simple veggie ferment (Kimchi or Sauerkraut), which I thought would be nice to base around wild food. So we had a short walk around the block gathering a variety of tasty specimens to add to our bowl of sliced carrots, leek, peeled root ginger, sweet…
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Recycled Courtyard
The courtyard had been the general builders yard dump for anything we couldn’t store in the workshop. The ground was uneven and sloping, a mixture of bare earth, rubble, concrete and weeds. Having dug up patches of old concrete, I sledge hammered them into smaller usable rubble, together with any other useful hardcore lying around…
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Bespoke Topiary frames
This cockerel topiary frame was commissioned for a country house in Longdown. The client required a frame that would act as a garden sculpture whilst the box plant takes it’s time to grow through it, and needed to be seen from a distance. I started with a prototype, 2 feet high by 4 feet long, made…