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    • Updated Peat-Free Nurseries List
    • Save Our Rainforests: The Peat-Free Nurseries List
  • Sustainable/Community
    • Peat Bog Restoration: Protecting Ecosystems and Limiting Climate Change
    • Year of Green Action Garden at RHS Hampton Court
    • 5 Environmentally-Friendly Ideas to Take Home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
    • Why Nature Matters: In Our Gardens and Our Countryside
    • Gardeners’ World Live: Water, Water, Everywhere…
    • Side gardens and shared spaces
    • Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
    • 7 Green Gift Ideas for Gardeners
    • Holding Back The Flood and The Urban Rain Garden
    • London Glades: Forest Garden Solutions For Urban Spaces
    • Creating a Community Forest Garden
    • Around the World in 6 Garden Cities
    • Plastic Pollution in the Pearlfisher Garden
    • Side gardens and shared spaces
    • How Did Your Love Of Gardening Begin?
    • Show The Love With A Green Heart
    • How Our Love Of Gardening Began – With Thanks
    • Greenfingers Charity Re-leaf Day
    • Gardening For A Sustainable Future
  • On The Wild Side
    • What Nestbox Where?
    • ‘Snickets’ by Nic Wilson
    • The Bee’s Knees
    • Why Nature Matters: In Our Gardens and Our Countryside
    • Winter Treats: Redwing and Fieldfare
    • Snapdragons of Autumn Twilight
    • Remaking The Seasons
    • Still Life
    • Of Swings And Daisies
    • January Delights: Inside and Out
  • Foraging
    • Autumn Foraging In The RHS Forest Garden
    • Exploring wild flowers: 5 coastal plants with interesting edible histories
    • Nettles revisited: how time removes the sting
    • Plot to Plate: Spiced Crab Apple Jelly and Crab Apple Fruit Leathers
    • A Taste of Summer: Elderflower Cordial Recipe
  • Design
    • Coral, Peach and Ivory Tones in Jo Thompson’s Wedgwood Garden
    • London Glades: Forest Garden Solutions For Urban Spaces
    • Holding Back The Flood and The Urban Rain Garden
    • Gardening For A Sustainable Future
    • 12 Practical Ways To Create A Modern Kitchen Garden
    • 6 Ways to Create an Ornamental and Productive Garden
    • RHS Feel Good Front Gardens: ‘A Herbal Retreat’
    • Around the World in 6 Garden Cities
    • Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe – the landscape, arts and the mind
    • Humphry Repton: Art and Nature for the Duke of Bedford
    • Creating A Winter Garden (Part 1)
    • Creating A Winter Garden (Part 2)
    • Creating A Winter Garden (Part 3)
  • My Garden
    • My Hard-Working Garden: An Ongoing Transformation(Part 1)
    • My Hard-Working Garden: An Ongoing Transformation (Part 2)
    • Out with the Ugly: Bin with the New
    • Binstore green roof (part two)
    • Binstore Green Roof (Part 3): Plants, plants, plants…
    • My Garden Right Now In Pictures
    • My Garden Right Now: A Mini Tour
    • Grow your way to happiness…
  • Grow Your Own
    • Vegetables
      • 25 Colourful Crops for a Vibrant Vegetable Garden
      • Planting Garlic in Containers and Oyster Mushroom Update
      • Windowsill Crops: Sprouted Seeds
      • 8 Delicious Recipes for Surviving a Rhubarb Glut…
      • In Praise of the Humble Pea: The Seedlip Garden
    • Fruit
      • Fruity New Ideas in the Edible Eden Garden at RHS Hampton Court
      • Chilli Harvest 2016
      • Old chillies v new chillies: how do you grow yours?
      • Oh Happy Day! New Tomatoes, Pepper and Watermelon Launched at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
      • 3 Top Tasting Tomatoes…
      • Seedy Saturday: Rainbows, Crocodiles and Pearls
    • Herbs
      • How To Grow Your Own Thai Curry
      • Hey Presto – Pesto!
      • RHS Feel Good Front Gardens: ‘A Herbal Retreat’
      • 10 Exciting Crops to Grow in a Modern Kitchen Garden
    • Unusual Crops
      • A Taste Of Unusual Edibles: RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
      • Secret Seed Club: Agretti
      • Book Review: Around The World In 80 Plants
      • Do My Cucamelons Look Big In This?
      • Confessions of an Ocaholic
      • 10 Exciting Crops to Grow in a Modern Kitchen Garden
      • How To Grow Your Own Thai Curry
      • Exploring wild flowers: 5 coastal plants with interesting edible histories
      • Allotment 96B: The Unusual, the Innovative and the Just Plain Weird…
      • Overwintering Tea, Coffee and Other Tender Edible Perennials
      • Oyster Mushroom Advent Calendar: A Christmas Harvest
      • Oyster Mushroom Advent Calendar: Part One
      • Prince and Pedlar: Forgotten Fruit
    • Taking Stock: The Three Worst Crops of 2016
    • Allotment 96B: The Unusual, the Innovative and the Just Plain Weird…
    • Allotment 96B: New Beginnings
    • Tattie Troubles And Other Allotment Affairs
  • Plot to plate
    • Plot to Plate: Stuffed Summer Squash
    • Plot to Plate: Apple and Cinnamon Butter
    • Scones with raspberry jam and clotted cream – perfect for a summer afternoon tea
    • Allotment Soup Challenge: Celeriac and Blue Cheese
    • Allotment Soup Challenge: Roasted Jerusalem Artichoke and Sweet Chestnut
    • Plot To Plate: Tomatillo Salsa
    • Plot to Plate: Cinnamon Poached Quinces
    • Plot to Plate: Chilean Guava Cupcakes
    • Plot to Plate: Courgette Tea Bread
    • Plot to Plate: Courgette and Chilli Cornbread
  • Cutting Patch
    • Tulip Time…
    • Cutting Patch: Into The Limelight
    • Planning a Cutting Patch: Annual Choices
    • Bulbs To Light Up Spring
    • Planning a Cutting Patch: Bulb Time
  • Flowers
    • 7 Best Alliums To Plant This Week
    • 3 Floral Favourites at RHS Tatton Park
    • Planting Palettes: Reflections on RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016
    • Clematis ‘Belle of Woking’: An Unusual History
    • Dogwood Days and Cornus Concerns
  • Kids
    • Garden Schooling: Nature Spells
    • Garden Schooling: From Small Seeds…
    • Sowing the Seeds of Tomorrow
    • Family Fun: The Great British Wildflower Hunt
    • Woburn Abbey Garden Show: A Family Affair
    • How to Engage Kids in a Small Family Garden Part 1: Building a Willow Den
    • How to Engage Kids in a Small Family Garden Part 2: Wildlife Wows
    • We can sow a rainbow…
  • What’s In A Name?
    • What’s In A Name? Capsicum Annuum
    • What’s In A Name? Centaurea montana ‘Amethyst In Snow’
    • What’s In A Name? Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’
    • What’s In A Name? Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla ‘Eva’
  • Write Plant Write Place
    • Book Review: The Secrets of Great Botanists and What They Teach Us About Gardening
    • Book Review: Dahlias by Naomi Slade and Georgianna Lane
    • Year Of The Almanac
    • Book Review: James Wong’s ‘How To Eat Better’
    • Book Review: Around The World In 80 Plants
    • Book Review: RHS Plants From Pips and The Little Book of Hygge
    • The Paper Garden: Mrs Delany [Begins Her Life’s Work] at 72

Tag: Nigella

Wordless Wednesday

June 7, 20172 Comments
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Started botanical drawings and watercolours a few months ago. Absolutely loving it!! 😊

Wordless Wednesday

June 22, 2016July 11, 20164 Comments
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Another Nigella – this week it’s Nigella papillosa ‘African Bride’

Wordless Wednesday

June 15, 2016July 11, 2016Leave a comment
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Such intricacies on this delicate Nigella

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Hi, thanks for visiting the blog. I’m Nic – a garden and nature writer based in Hertfordshire. I’m also a peat-free gardener, keen birdwatcher, inveterate bookworm and mum to two budding growers. Join me as I follow my crops from plot to plate, explore new plants and share the wonder and beauty of the nature world…

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Lovely to open my January copy of Gardeners' World Magazine and see the first of my nature series, starting with making fat cakes to attract birds to the garden. Not long now until the Big Garden Birdwatch...
Misty over the reedbeds this morning & the song thrushes giving it some welly.
Nightfall over the reedbeds, rejoicing in a bit of solitary time, just the crows keeping me company & an alder watching my back. Moonlight pooling on the boardwalk as I set off home.
My Guardian Country Diary today explores the alder carr - a place that is dear to me & where I go for restoration, creativity & simply to breathe. (link in bio)
On fire #nofilter
Mellow, luxurious Dahlia Cafe au Lait this evening.
Fiery moon stairway to heaven across the bay.
Rainbow beans for tea.

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  • Updated Peat-Free Nurseries List
    Updated Peat-Free Nurseries List
  • Planting Palettes: Reflections on RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016
    Planting Palettes: Reflections on RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016
  • Save Our Rainforests: The Peat-Free Nurseries List
    Save Our Rainforests: The Peat-Free Nurseries List
  • How to Engage Kids in a Small Family Garden Part 1: Building a Willow Den
    How to Engage Kids in a Small Family Garden Part 1: Building a Willow Den
  • 12 Practical Ways To Create A Modern Kitchen Garden
    12 Practical Ways To Create A Modern Kitchen Garden
  • Allotment 96B: The Unusual, the Innovative and the Just Plain Weird...
    Allotment 96B: The Unusual, the Innovative and the Just Plain Weird...
  • What's In A Name? Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
    What's In A Name? Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
  • My Hard-Working Garden: An Ongoing Transformation(Part 1)
    My Hard-Working Garden: An Ongoing Transformation(Part 1)
  • Pesticide-Free Plants with the Saving Pollinators Assurance Scheme
    Pesticide-Free Plants with the Saving Pollinators Assurance Scheme
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My Favourite Blogs

RSS Nature Notes

  • Nature Notes February 21, 2021
    Freeze-Thaw In their deeply frozen state, the hill, fields and woods are a blanched, pale, brownish beige. Just before sunset, I spring two woodcock up from beside me. They rock away like dumpy wooden arks, their long, compass needle bills never wavering from the earth they quickly return to. Above me, the peregrine falcon flies … Continue reading Nature Not […]
    nicolawriting

RSS Landlines: Nature Writing

  • Land Lines Blog Community Reviews: Favourite Nature Writing Texts of 2020 December 23, 2020
    We are delighted to be able to share contributions from the Land Lines Blog community in this special post – which brings together our readers and contributors’ favourite nature writing texts that they encountered in 2020. A profoundly difficult year for many, 2020 has offered some of us a chance to reflect on what natureContinue reading "Land Lines Blo […]
    Lucy Rowland

RSS The Unconventional Gardener

  • Doomscrolling, or No News is Good News March 1, 2021
    Doomscrolling does no one any good. No news is good news!
    Emma

RSS Gardens, Weeds and Words

  • Day 61: spurge alien March 2, 2021
    There’s a week or so before the spurge flowers, when it hunches over against the bitter March winds that billow through the garden, long leaves overlapped like armour plates, protectively shielding the flowering bracts…
    Andrew O'Brien

RSS Mark’s Veg Plot

  • Successes and failures August 4, 2020
    When I first started my blog I set out with the intention of showing my gardening exploits GOOD or BAD, and not shying away from admitting any failures. So, with that in mind, I admit a failure: this year my onions have been very poor.When I planted out 20 multi-sown clumps of onion seedlings on 16th March, I had high hopes, because I used this technique wit […]
    noreply@blogger.com (Mark Willis)

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