Get a big sack type planter for your greenhouse or conservatory; fill it with some lovely growing media of your choice (I use good quality multipurpose compost mixed with some delicious homemade compost) and sow yourself some salad crops. I am currently enjoying small harvests of salad bowl lettuce, lollo… Read More »Spring salads ~ 19/4/2016
It is time to come clean. I frequently post photographs on my website and Instagram of beautiful plants, flowers and garden scenes. Some of the beautiful plants and flowers are from my own garden. None of the beautiful garden scenes are from my own garden. I do not live in… Read More »Confession ~ 4/4/2016
Today is the day ~ First bluebell sighting of the year! I need to qualify this statement. It was my first sighting of the beautiful, delicate, deep and true royal blue English bluebell but I’ve been digging up heaps of it’s brutish cousin, the Spanish bluebell, for weeks now. There… Read More »England v Spain (Bluebell League) 2/4/2016
The most useful and inspiring Christmas present that I have regularly received over the past few years has been my Royal Horticultural Society annual membership – thank you very much Mother! I have agonised this year – have I made the most of my membership? Answer: No. My weekends are… Read More »RHS The Garden v Gardens Illustrated 17/12/2015
My mother is a wonderful photographer. She is so talented that she has managed to capture an image of me in which I actually look like a human being. This human is a bit geeky, slightly wonky and fairly exhausted but it is definitely recognisable as a human. This will… Read More »A very rare, strangely ok photograph of me ~ 19/10/2015
Good golly, I have gone and done it ~ I am a #etsyseller! Go to Etsy.com and search Nicola Hope Designs.…..go on, I dare you. I am selling my gorgeous greetings cards in packs of 10 different botanical designs….. ….and you can buy one of my pieces as wall art… Read More »I am an Etsy Seller ~ I have my own online shop!!!! 5/10/2015
