Blog of the Month – My Tiny Plot

Looking around for new and exciting blogs, this month I came across My Tiny Plot.

My Tiny Plot is the diary of Gillian Carson and her vegetable patch in Bath, England. Her philosophy is all about growing vegetables and eating fresh produce; some of which she then turns into baby meals.

Gillian’s writing style is clear and easy to follow and her posts are full of interesting facts and lovely photographs.

I like the way she wrote a number of posts over Christmas featuring cookery and sewing projects as well as her I Want One posts reviewing gardening related products and ideas for Christmas or Birthday presents.

This blog offers an abundance of gardening information so take some time out of your busy day to take a look around this lovely website.

Shoot has launched it’s new Website

Shoot is an award-winning website for gardeners and has long been a favourite of mine. I have used their website often and was interested to hear that it had recently been relaunched.

It not only easier to use but it is full of lots of useful and interesting features including:

• Plant search
• Garden Planner
• Check which plants work in your garden before you add it to your list
• View your plants list in A-Z order, by Group and by Most recently added
• Move plants from your wish list to your plants I have list as you buy them
• Upload and share  garden images
• Monitor forums to get alerts about any new topics or posts added
• Opt in or out of our update emails and care advice emails
• Add links to your Blog, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pages
• Filter plant search by flower colour & season, foliage colour & season and sun conditions
• ….. and lots, lots more.

Joining Shoot is Free but to benefit from the whole range of services you can take out a Full or Business Subscription – and for a limited time you can get £1 off by clicking here.

BBC Gardeners World Blogs

I have just added Toby Bucklands blog to our front page to let you know what the BBC Gardeners World team are up to day by day.

It can be found on the right hand side of the page; right click the link you are interested in and Open in New Page to ensure you stay on our site for lots more information.

The latest blogs from Toby are about the move from Berryfields to the new Gardeners World garden Greenacre. The team are hard at work preparing the garden for its debue in a few weeks time. It will be exciting to see the show in a new location with lots of new ideas to learn from.

To access Tobys blog direct click here. The other presenters also have blogs, click on their names to find out what they are up to now: Alys Fowler and Joe Swift. Carol doesn’t have one yet but I’ll add it when she does.

A Glorious Planting Combination

I have just been browsing the Gardeners World blog and Adam Pasco has a post about a great plantng combination of the evergreen Persian ivy Hedera colchica ‘Sulphur Heart’ and deciduous Vitis coignetiae, the crimson glory vine. I first saw Vitis coignetiae when Carol Klein featured it one Friday on Gardeners World and I just had to have it. I have planted it on my bare fence panels and now having seen this combination with the ivy wish I’d thought of that. It’s not too late though, looks like another trip to the garden centre for me. Take a look at the full post here.