TheBloomingTales

On the weekends I usually spend time reading gardening books, old magazines or surfing the net for gardening tips and ideas.  Months ago I s...

Decaying tomatoes in the glass house are sprouting this week.  It is a great reminder as to how many new plants you can get from a singl...

Sedum Spurium Fuldaglut Purchased when I needed a few little ground covers to fill some gaps in one of my flower beds. This has to be on...

Tomato, tomato, tomatoes! Last weekend brought the end to the tomato growing season for the garden. It was a bittersweet end to be hone...

This Friday's photo is of a Calendula Officinalis bloom.  I raised the seedlings from seeds I had sown in punnets in January (now A...

All puns aside this really is a hot tip. I have been searching for a ‘spray free’ method of getting rid of the weeds that have been po...

On my walk home from work one summer’s evening I passed a store with a stall of organic seedling plants outside. I find it difficult to...

The Blooming Tales is resurfacing after a long hot hibernation! Since my last post (over four years ago) a lot has happened. I finishe...

I discovered the Auckland Botanical Gardens at the beginning of the year when completing an assignment for a horticulture cer...

Cabbage!  Boring?  Mmmm, maybe.  But it’s the only thing that has actually grown and ready for picking in my winter garden this week.  But b...