Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: garden

  • *Spring*

        Suddenly spring is here! I have been so sick for the last week and a half…and in that time it seems like winter has started to fade and spring has come! I couldn’t be happier about this development…as much as I love autumn, there is something so pleasantly surprising about spring, isn’t there?…

  • An Easter Egg Tree

         A few days back I pruned our little peach tree so that it will be ready for another harvest this summer, and I had a great idea. A few months ago when I interviewed Tovah Martin, I was looking through her book “A Time To Blossom” and there was a feature about forcing…

  • A Berkshire Botanical Garden Ramble…

       Here we are, in the heart of cold ‘mid-winter.’ It’s that time of year when I start looking at books and magazines about gardening, and dreaming audacious dreams about the coming year’s planting plans. At the moment, it’s hard to look outside at all the brown and gray and feel inspired, but I know…