A little in the pink this week, the first bulb order has arrived, the second is on its way. #SevenOnSunday

There’s something enriching about finding a self-seeded plant in the garden that you really want. Then potting it up ready for putting in the right place for next year. Stipa pseudoichu. #gardening #gravelgardens #grasses.

For today’s #roseWednesday here is Eustacia Vye (David Austin). Still looking good in the lowering sun and fabulous scent. It may be late in the season, but no one has told that to the garden roses; they are still going well. #roses #gardening

Salvia microphylla is a wonderful, versatile plant. It does well in my sandy, alkaline soil so I grow quite a few. Here are four of my favs from the garden this week, Lavender Dilly Dilly, Icing Sugar, Lemon Light and Walsingham White. #gardening #UKgardens #salvia

Salthouse marshes yesterday. Enjoyed a trip around the Cley and Salthouse nature reserve, managed by the #NorfolkWildlifeTrust. Many migrating birds starting to arrive. #Norfolk #Cley #NWT

What a glorious long summer; I’m fortunate to be able to make the most of it. The north Norfolk beaches are so packed I don’t know where to sit 🙄. #summer #coastalwalking #Norfolk #Cley #breatheintheair

Good morning. Another cracker ☀️. #lazymornings #gardens #Irishsetters.

Think it will be a full day working on the new bed layouts. Can’t grumble about the weather today. #gardening #UKgardens #Norfolk

If you’ve been dead heading your roses frequently you’ll now be reaping the rewards of an extended season. Cracking day today in these parts. #roses #gardening #Norfolk

Rosa Gabriel Oak, doing what it does best, brightening up the day with its strong colour and scent. Wishing everyone a great weekend. #roses #gardening

Too much end-of-season veg and bored of the same old stuff? Allow me to recommend a ratatouille with garlic flatbread on the side. I’m not vegetarian, but the older I get the more I think I could be. #homegrown #vegetarian #health

For #roseWednesday here’s a couple of standard roses that are still in good bloom in the garden. ‘Princess Anne’ and ‘Roald Dahl’ from David Austin. Providing colour at eye level while I get on with major new projects for next year #roses #gardening 🌱

Pinks and reds still going strong in the garden. Pics taken over the last 3 days. Roses: Lucky, Strawberry Hill, Gertrude Jekyll and Gabriel Oak. #roses #gardening #gardenshour

Biennial seeds (foxgloves & Sweet William) sown in June, thinned in July, potted on in August and now planted in over-winter beds in September. Garden-ready plants will set you back around £10 each next Spring, about the same it’s cost me for around 30 plants this way. #gardening #gardenshour

Another glorious sunny day on the East coast. Good to make the most walking along the beaches and sandy cliffs enjoying the ozone and taking in the vitamin sea. Autumn, yet still shorts weather. #Norfolk #walking #Happisburgh

Fortunate to have a mature horse chestnut tree in the garden, and this year’s conkers are huge ! #gardens #nature

The roses are still putting on a show in the autumn sunshine. Don’t give up on them yet, they should flower well into October if the frosts hold off. #roses #gardening #UKgardens 🌱

Summer is still with us in these parts. Some rain last week and now 26 degrees of warmth today and the garden is loving it. As am I, both inside and out. About to open these doors to bring the garden inside. #gardening #UKgardens

It’s still good to be able to post new photographs from the garden for #roseWednesday as Autumn gathers pace. This is ‘Princess Anne’, with her characteristic dusky-pink blooms and wonderful scent, still producing plenty of colour. It will be all change when the temperature drops.

In ancient Greece, it was said mushrooms sprang up where Zeus, the King of the Gods, cast his lightning bolts. Modern studies show that strikes can indeed boost mushroom growth, even doubling yields on spore-laden logs. The myth may have held some truth after all! #FolkloreSunday

You can tell a healthy rose by its foliage. And the quality of the foliage that you see is determined by what you can’t see, the health of the roots. Pics taken today in the garden. I mulch twice a year and also feed three times a year, watering when it’s dry, in sandy soil. #roses #gardening

For #roseWednesday a potted plant that I have a love-hate relationship with. I inherited it in a bed, transferred it to a pot and two months ago it was looking dreadful. I cut it right back to the base thinking I’d re-use the pot. Suddenly it’s like this. Def a keeper now. #roses #gardening

The sweetcorn from the garden has been excellent this year. Between 20 and 30 really good cobs from 15 plants. Var. Goldcrest. #gardenshour #veggies #gardening

After a week of sunshine and showers the roses are loving it. This is ‘Princess Anne’ (David Austin) in the garden, taken yesterday, looking very healthy and with fantastic scent. An extended Indian summer seems on the cards in this part of the world. #roses #Englishroses #gardening #UKgardens 🌱

It’s September on the beach and ….. 🎶 the times they are a changin’ #beaches #weather #stormy #BobDylan

It’s still summer as far as roses are concerned. To emphasise the point, for #roseWednesday here is Rosa ‘Summertime’, still going strong in the garden. #roses #gardening #summer 🌱

Roses still doing well. These varieties in my garden taken in the last couple of days. Varieties in ALT text. Includes Gertrude Jekyll, voted the worlds favourite rose 2025. #GardensHour #gardening #roses

The scented pelargonium ‘Pink Capitatum’ captured last week, early in the morning after rain. These have done well in the garden this year, both in pots and beds. #GardensHour #sixweeksofcolour #gardening 🌱

The beauty of new rose buds swelled by some welcome rain. Rosa ‘Eustacia Vye’ by David Austin, from the garden last week. #roses #gardening #GardensHour 🌱

Weird. My dog is grazing on my sunflowers like a giraffe, eating a tree branch. 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #DogsofBlueSky #SettersofBlueSky #IrishSetters

Be nice and say “hi” to rebels on bicycles. Respectful, these Norfolk types. NFN #fingerpostFriday #NormalForNorfolk

“The visitor centre is this way guys …” #FingerpostFriday #NorfolkBroads

I’ve started adding low-growing “carpet” roses to the garden for a bit of colourful ground cover. For #roseWednesday this is ‘The Fairy’, an old polyantha rose planted a couple of weeks ago. Floribunda roses came from crossing polyantha types with hydrid teas. #roses #gardening 🌱

So many tomatoes from the garden that I was challenged by my daughter to create some good soup. So here we are, roasted pepper and tomato. #homegrown #veggies

Sedum ‘Atlantis’. A low growing Sedum which is a real stand-out in the gravel garden, small but bright yellow flowers on variegated foliage. another one I picked up from a National Trust plant stand. #GardensHour #SixWeeksofColour #gardening

Kniphofia ‘Timothy’. Getting a bit big for this space so I’ll need to divide it for next season. ##GardensHour #SixWeeksofColour #gardening

Echinacea ‘Mellow Yellows’, planted in front of ‘Angustifolia’. #GardensHour #SixWeeksofColour #gardening

Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’ has thrived this year. This one from the garden. #GardensHour #SixWeeksofColour #gardening

Coreopsis ‘Santa Fe’ in my gravel garden. Love the flower form of this plant, I picked it up from a National Trust plant stand. #GardensHour #gardening

Iconic, original-style minis celebrating bygone times at a cultural festival in Cromer, Norfolk, UK. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic

The plum freezing has begun. Set for winter crumbles. The second (later ripening) tree looks like it will yield 20kg or so. Use or lose as they say. #fruit #homegrown #health #healthyeating

I’m enjoying some local walks at the moment. This is a view on a walk around the Horsey estate on the Broads. Daughter #2 is up from London so will likely do more today. Wishing everyone a great weekend. #NorfolkBroads #walking #countryside #nature

The sea was a little choppy at Winterton today. Still, a good long beach walk was had. #beaches #walking #Norfolk

I planted two of these roses, var. ‘Lucky’, into new beds barely two weeks ago and they are already thriving. I think that we are going to get on. #roseWednesday #roses #gardening #UKgardens 🌱

On a day that celebrates the colour red in our gardens it wouldn’t be right not to have an image of the wonderful David Austin rose ‘Gabriel Oak’. Another favourite from the garden. #GardensHour #roses

Dahlia ‘Dynamite’ from the garden. #GardensHour

These Japanese anemone flowers seem to float in mid air in portrait mode. Hope you have a great Sunday. #gardening 🌱

🌱Good Morning Gardeners🌱 Luscious ‘Ballerina’ fuchsia to wish a pleasant & relaxing weekend in the garden! ☘️😊☘️

A happy Friday to all. Fuchsia ‘Delta’s Sarah’ from the garden this week, grown as a short hedge. #gardening 🌱 #ukgardens #EastCoastKin

This cheers my heart. Long shadows across newly harvested cereals says summer evening strolls. And another successful harvest gathered in producing local food. Out of shot were deer in the field feeding off dropped grain. #farming #harvest #countryside