“As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits.” Pliny I have been overseas and arrived home just in the ideal time to pick and dry the mint I have growing everywhere in my garden. In Spring, the leaves are bursting with vitality and goodness. Mint is…Continue reading The Wonder of Mint

Nasturtiums, who coloured you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets. Lucy Laud Montgomery It has been nearly six years since we moved into our newly built home in the countryside. I remember looking at the scraped clay all around the house, the many slopes and awkward corners, and thinking…Continue reading In Honour of the Humble Nasturtium