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June 2022
Ah, June. The first month of Winter. Everything slows down and, as Jenny so succinctly puts it, “looks dead”. June was a slow month in the garden. Sickness ran through the family causing chaos and short tempers. The garden retaliated by growing weeds in a Spring-like manner. We couldn’t remember seeing so many weeds. Of course, when you feel unwell everything is much worse but it was looking pretty bad. At least there was no watering to be done. That would have sent Jenny over the edge, I’m pretty sure. The garden is Jenny’s garden, and when she is not working in it, or planning something, or declaring how much…
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April 2022
It may look lovely but April can only be described as a month of destruction in our garden… It began with the apple step-overs. One of the first things we planted when we arrived at Crofton over 20 years ago, this is an old espaliering technique where you cut out the leader at the first pair of lateral branches so it is low enough to step over (hence the name). It is only small garden area, one we walk past daily and yet had slipped beneath our view over the years, until now… To be honest the makeover was fuelled by an idea that had been brewing for a while.…
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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,…
