Blooms 'n' Spades
Adventures in my small West London garden.
Home
About the Blooms 'n' Spades garden
Wildlife
Plants
*
Reviews and Advertising
Products Reviewed
Wildlife
Home
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Find me here
Topics
Blog Archives
Popular Posts for the Week
Where is all the frogspawn?
It's even too cold for the frogs at the moment. Apart from the spawn above, left on the 28th March, there is no more to be seen, and ...
A Memorial Garden
Recently, one of my beloved cats had to be put to sleep. Misty had been with us for 12 years, and as any pet owner knows, they become a huge...
The August Garden
Yeah! If you made it here then it means you discovered my new web address, I am now officially bloomsnspades.blogspot.co.uk. It's nearly...
All Time Popular Posts
My Fruit and Vegetable Container Garden
Originally, I had the notion of a traditional cottage garden for my patch, with flowers, fruits and vegetables all mingling happily with eac...
The October Garden
Has it really been a month since my last post! October really does seem to have just flown by, and the garden has taken a bit of a back seat...
Wildlife Ponds
Anyone who knows me will be fully aware of my fascination with the wildlife in my garden. I think my family are somewhat immune to my rantin...
Paeonies, Poppies and Roses
These three plants have been the stars of the show for the last couple of weeks. I've been blown away by my Sarah Bernhardt Paeony this ...
In Bloom for August
There has been so much upheaval in the garden over the last few weeks, I'm surprised there is anything blooming in there at all. But des...
Garden Favourites
Some of my favourite flowers are in bloom now, or in bud, waiting to burst forth. There are plenty of Dicentra throughout the garden. ...
The September Garden
September is nearly over, and although the nights have got a lot chillier here and there's a bit of a nip in the air during the day, it&...
Evolution
If there's one thing that draws me into a gardening blog or website, it's photos that show how a garden has changed and evolved over...
Working on the Woodland
I was recently offered the chance to preview eminent plantsman Keith Wiley's new book, Designing and Planting a Woodland Garden: Plants ...
The Keepers and the Weepers
The work in overhauling the garden has been continuing, and I'm incredibly happy with how everything looks now. I've been very ruthl...
Search by Topic
ajuga
(1)
alliums
(3)
alstroemeria
(1)
anemone
(4)
anemone blanda
(1)
apple tree
(2)
aquilegias
(3)
astilbe
(2)
autumn
(1)
azaleas
(2)
bamboo
(3)
bay
(1)
bees
(1)
begonia
(1)
blackberries
(1)
bluebells
(2)
book review
(1)
brunnera
(2)
buddleia
(1)
buds and shoots
(2)
bulbs
(2)
butterflies
(1)
camelias
(1)
campanula
(3)
carex
(1)
cherry blossom
(1)
chrysanthemum
(1)
cistus
(1)
clematis
(7)
coldframe
(1)
containers
(2)
coreopsis
(1)
cyclamen
(1)
dahlias
(2)
dianthus
(1)
dicentra
(2)
dividing plants
(1)
echinacea
(2)
ferns
(2)
fish pond
(2)
foxglove
(2)
french beans
(1)
frogs
(3)
fruit
(2)
fuchsia
(1)
garden ornaments
(1)
garden overviews
(8)
geraniums
(3)
geums
(1)
growhouse
(2)
hardy geranium
(3)
hawthorn
(1)
helenium
(1)
hellebore
(2)
heuchera
(2)
heucherella
(2)
honeysuckle
(1)
houttuynia
(1)
hydrangea
(2)
impatiens
(2)
in bloom for...
(2)
japanese maple
(1)
kale
(1)
kew gardens
(2)
lamium
(2)
lilac
(2)
lilies
(2)
lily beetle
(2)
lobelia
(1)
lythrum salicaria
(1)
marsh marigold
(2)
memorial garden
(1)
muscari
(1)
narcissus
(1)
nemesia
(4)
newts
(1)
nicotiana
(1)
paeonies
(1)
pansies
(1)
patio
(1)
petunias
(1)
pickerel hyacinth
(3)
pieris
(1)
plants
(1)
plug plants
(1)
polemonium
(1)
ponds
(2)
poppies
(4)
primula
(1)
raised beds
(1)
raspberries
(1)
rhododendrons
(2)
RHSWisley
(1)
rhubarb
(1)
rocket
(1)
roses
(4)
rudbeckia
(2)
salad leaves
(2)
salix willow
(2)
sedum
(2)
seedlings
(3)
seeds
(2)
shady area
(2)
shasta daisy
(2)
slugs and snails
(1)
snowdrops
(1)
solanum
(2)
spinach
(1)
spring
(5)
spring onions
(1)
squirrel
(1)
starlings
(1)
strawberries
(3)
summer
(1)
tadpoles
(1)
the...garden
(3)
tomatoes
(1)
triangular bed
(2)
tulips
(2)
UK grown
(1)
vegetables
(1)
verbascum
(1)
verbena
(1)
vine weevil
(1)
viola
(1)
wildlife
(2)
wildlife ponds
(4)
woodland border
(1)
Browse Previous Posts
▼
2014
(12)
▼
October
(1)
The October Garden
►
September
(4)
►
August
(4)
►
July
(3)
►
2013
(18)
►
June
(3)
►
May
(5)
►
April
(10)
ADVERTISING