Let me introduce my tradescantia nanouk! I bought this incredibly pretty plant three months ago as a bit of a lockdown treat for myself + as a big fan of my other pink tradescantia — the fluminensis tricolour, I didn’t really know what to expect in comparison. I hadn’t seen a plant in real life…
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I thought it was about time I shared a little more of my outdoor plants + gave a bit of a container garden update. As you will know if you read my blog regularly, houseplants are my thing + outdoor gardening is very much a hobby that I see quite differently to my indoor plants…
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It’s that time of year again… last week I got my scissors out and cut back my tradescantia fluminensis tricolour entirely. My plant fared surprisingly well during the move but as Spring growth kicked in, my plant was looking a little… straggly. I think this is the third cycle of cutting I have done with…
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Whenever I post a photo of my big monstera on instagram, one of the most common questions I’m asked is ‘how do you get it to grow up like that?’ / ‘How do you stop it sprawling out?’ …you get the idea. So for today’s post I thought I would show you how I have…
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I thought I’d share some photos today from my gardening + outdoor seed sowing progress. Since moving I haven’t really shown much of my outside space — it’s nothing exciting, just a paved area with some grass + a path! But over the years, I have shared my balcony garden escapades alongside my houseplant obsession…
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As a series that has existed until now over on my instagram page, I wanted to create a space on my blog to share my ‘documentary’ photos that show new leaves un-furling. There is something magical about this process — from that initial excitement in noticing the beginnings of new growth to the durational opening up…
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It’s national gardening week here in the UK so this is quite a timely post — when I mentioned seed sowing on my instagram the other day, I got a few questions asking to show what I’m up to, so this post is a bit of an introduction to my seed-stash plans right now. I…
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After giving my balcony herb garden to my sister when I moved, I was missing my fragrant doorstep greenery that had taken up permanent residence in front of the battered french doors five years ago. They looked pretty unassuming (not really looking like they were growing much yet slowly but surely getting fuller) but definitely…
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