• Garden Diary,  Plants,  Tales from the Garden

    January 2022

    If there’s one thing you could say about Jenny, it’s that she never does things by halves.  Sometimes it’s a bit half arsed but never halves. January is never a good month at Crofton Garden.  Sandford is the second driest place in Tasmania and relies on tank water so it can get totally depressing watching the garden get dry and crispy and only have a limited amount of control over it. So within this context you could say we were desperately looking for a distraction.  And distraction we found via Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens series, which included a Japanese influenced garden, which reminded Jenny how much she loved them, which,…