Category: Blog

Now is the time to start thinking about summer. Every garden should have a beautiful area to sit in, enjoying the nice weather when it comes. Here are some pictures of a patio that was created last year. It’s not just a place to enjoy outside, but in this case it also bridges the height difference…

Wishing you a happy and healthy and flower filled New Year!  All the best from Konia Tack @ GardenJoy in the Highlands

The yew tree is nicely shaped – but maybe a bit too dark green for your liking. So off you trot to the garden centre to cheer it (and you) up by buying and planting a Tropaeolum speciosum (or flame flower). This relative of the nasturtium is a perennial climber with bright red wee flowers,…

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore

If you like a bit of jungle gardening, as I call it, this blog is for you. (Or it could inspire you!) In my own garden, I created different areas. I am a plant-a-holic and love colour so most of the garden is a riot of colour. But I also created a secluded area with…

It’s so easy to get carried away in the garden – there is so much to do… But we all need to make sure that our busy lives also give us a time out. To sit and enjoy, to read, to do whatever works for you to relax and enjoy your garden. At any garden…

The importance of keeping a log (but only if you want to!) If you want to see the changes in your garden or improve your garden, a log is a good idea. This could be a written one or a photographic one. Whether you have a camera or a mobile phone (with a camera) –…

After some beautiful planting ideas for our back garden, Konia did the designs for the front of the house. With two paths leading from the front door, several planting areas and two grassy areas, Konia’s design is most imaginative and with her advise as to the plants that would work best in each part of…

Yes there are some milder and drier days when you can venture out – but a lot of the time it’s just armchair gardening. But isn’t it fun. A nice cuppa and some biscuits, the fire lit, perusing seed catalogues, books and magazines. As ever I’d like to grow more vege (and better) and the…