Menainthegarden

28/09/2026

Made a start with planting up standard and intermediate daffodils on Sunday and again today. Most of my effort was on competition Daffodil planting but towards the end of the day, I did a few pots of pretty garden Daffodils.
Don’t be fooled I’ve got the loads more to plant but I will hop on stories later this week to show you how I keep them over winter. No plunge bed this year as I found it didn’t make any marginal difference to the performance in competition. In fact, the one that when me the RHS show was grown in one of my raised beds….

24/09/2026

My garden on 24/9/2026

21/09/2026

Let’s get away from maggots and back to something more uplifting. Thank you to everyone that use my discount code who has made this giveaway entirely possible. You know who you are. 🥰

How to enter:
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Prize: The two winners will each receive a £25 Farmer Gracy voucher.

Entries close: 25th September at 7pm.

Two winners will be chosen at random and contacted via DM by me and this account only.

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Good luck, everyone!

20/09/2026

So disappointed. A significant amount of my garden daffodils have been affected by Narcissus bulb fly, and I’m absolutely gutted.

What started as a few bulbs looking rotten at the basal plate turned into me cutting them open and finding larvae inside. And then I started checking more. And more 😔

Without doubt they are fantastic pollinators and predators of aphids. However, their larvae feed on bulbous plants and can/will cause considerable damage.

13/09/2026

Don’t rely on the catalogue photo alone, please. On the whole suppliers are good at showing a true reflection of the spring flower. But do read the description and look for real-life photos to see how the bulbs actually grow.

A little research before you buy can make all the difference to your future spring garden.

11/09/2026

No Hook. Just Gardening Photos

Noah’s stripes tomato

Erigeron karvinskianus softening my path to my rhino greenhouse

Day Lily

Deep shade with nibbled leaves on the hosta from slugs

Potting up my miniature Daffodils.

Autumn

Autumn garden

Busy bee on a new seed dahlia

Autumn in the garden

The end

10/09/2026

Just doing my bit for the daffodil community. Remember! Resistance is futile. The daffodils are coming 👀
Daffodils for spring

07/09/2026

After the drought of summer we all deserve a colourful autumn garden.
The Plants
Hosta | Hydrangea Eclipse | Acer Katsura | Aster Twilight

06/09/2026

03/09/2026

Some people stay up for Taylor Swift tickets. I stay up for Fluwel daffodils. I regret nothing.
Fluwel