Handmade – Pebble and Fern Market Garden

16 Feb 2016

Out there and In here…

by The Gardener | Posted in: Handmade | 0

A few weeks or so ago it seemed a bit like Spring was on the way. Nope. Not yet anyway. It is just as cold out as it looks. I admit to having a lifelong concern with the circumstances of … Continued

16 Jan 2016

Mud Kitchen!

by The Gardener | Posted in: Garden, Handmade, Island Life, Mud Kitchen | 0

Gardens are really wonderful places – full of pretty flowers, scented herbs, all kinds of beds and borders of edible plants with colourful and shapely leaves. Bright crocheted artwork, fanciful birdhouses, odd bits of sculpture and crazy driftwood trellises decorate … Continued

13 Dec 2015

Fun Made By Hand!

by The Gardener | Posted in: Handmade, Market | 0

We set up our downstairs office as an impromptu craft fair for all of our lovely customers that could not make it out to the very few and select holiday markets that we attend.This proved to be quite fun and … Continued

9 Dec 2015

The sad state of the stairs….

by The Gardener | Posted in: Handmade, Shanty | 0

The old staircase in this old house has definitely seen better days. When we arrived we found that the original handmade wooden balustrade had been replaced with an interesting bit of bodged blocking that was sheathed in some of that … Continued

29 Nov 2015

Tough guys!

by The Gardener | Posted in: Garden, Handmade, Kitchen, Market, Metalwork | 0

It is starting to get pretty chilly at night here. The lukewarm-air blowing dinosaur of a furnace comes on unbidden in the wee hours of the morning and somehow manages to keep this old house at a bearable 55 º F … Continued

23 Nov 2015

Playtime…

by The Gardener | Posted in: Garden, Handmade | 0

A fabulous flower! For some reason these Artichokes have carried on blooming all through this intermittenly chilly Autumn. So very pretty and so very like a sort of land based Water Lily. This is the seasonal change of gears that means … Continued

17 Oct 2015

Preserves

by The Gardener | Posted in: Garden, Handmade, Kitchen | 0

It turns out that after all that amazing harvesting you really must preserve your landslide of beautiful produce. We have piles of shiny yellow and green Courgettes and Pattypan Summer Squash. Basket after basket of the perfect and very lush … Continued

17 Sep 2015

Potential

by The Gardener | Posted in: Handmade | 0

Such enormous fun! There is something awfully special about a big basket of new yarn (from Rock Loaf Farm…so very local too!). Soft squishy yarn with that lovely lanolin-y smell and just look at all the pretty colours! All just waiting … Continued

7 Sep 2015

Calendula!

by The Gardener | Posted in: Garden, Handmade, Kitchen | 0

A lovely row of Cottage Garden-ish Calendula, also known as the Pot Marigold. Calendula is in the Daisy family and it is a useful plant in the Garden border and also in the kitchen. Flower petals can be added to … Continued

18 Jul 2015

Watch this space!

by The Gardener | Posted in: Handmade, People | 0

We have engaged this wonderful young artist to give new life to the expansive canvas of a rather sad old retaining wall. So very much can’t wait to get to take the “after” pictures because her work is so very … Continued

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