Sue Lambert

Lemon Bergamot from Chiltern Seeds

Dahlia Just Married is one of the more showy dahlias we grow but also seems to be one of the toughest. 🌱🌸

This lovely Sophora is covered in flowers this year and buzzing with a host of different pollinators. The canopy is about 18m across and provides welcome shade in the garden.

Our first rose to fully open this year is Sombreuil. It’s a beautiful climbing rose with a lovely scent.

Great day out at #RHSMalvern. Inspiring show gardens with lovely planting combinations, amazing displays in the floral marquee, floral art section and house plant show.

Light snow showers this morning here in Gloucestershire. The magnolias are just coming into flower so 🤞they make it through the next couple of days.

A welcome splash of colour from the tête-à-tête daffodils running along the raised rocky bed.

So nice to see these clumps of snowdrops and crocuses opening up all around the garden. 🌱

Good day in the garden today, mild and sunny. Lovely scent around the garden from these winter shrubs now in flower.

This is Maisey our latest rescue collie from the Dogs Trust. Thanks to @bemorebob.bsky.social for the help and advice on her new Ruffwear harness - she loves it 🐾

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Pals we are thrilled to announce that we’ve won ‘Best Independent Shop’ in the Cotswolds Award!

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Amanda Cobbett Embroidered Nature, Guildford, Surrey UK, Artist Amanda Cobbett Embroidered Nature. Amanda is a british contemporary textile artist who creates 3D Machine Embroidered sculptures of natural forms from her workshop in the Surrey Hills near Guildford U...

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These exquisite pieces of 'bark covered with mosses and a selection of lichens' are in fact machine embroidered by textile artist, Amanda Cobbett.

More of this artist's extraordinary work here: amandacobbett.com

#textiles #art #moss #lichen

Curried butternut squash soup, made with our homegrown squash. Perfect after a bright and blustery morning in the garden.

Molly Brett's "The Flower Ballet"

I love how threads can look different from different angles, the change of light & textures can give such depth… A side angle of my embroidery Desdemona for you today… 😊🪡🌿🪷 *completely freehand stitched in July 2023
#stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

Sorting seeds out today🌱 as the ground is frozen outside. Each draw is named monthly and we put the seeds for each month in the draws. A tower for flowers and one for vegetables! Simple then you don’t forget when to sow.🌱 #winterready #gardeninghacks #vegetableseeds #flowerseeds

Feeding the Bluebirds by Willy Petersen

A cottage stands at the end of a lane, with hedges on each side and trees above, all covered in snow.

The power of snow to transform the everyday into magical, to sparkle every tree and hedgerow with its own light, never fails to amaze me. The little cottage at the end of the lane became a scene from a fairytale yesterday. #peakdistrict

Clear and cold today - great for a brisk walk. View across the Avon vale #Gloucestershire towards Cleeve Hill #Cotswolds still with just a light dusting of snow.

Well this wasn’t forecast as far south as Gloucestershire! 🌱❄️

Liquidambar just about hanging on to its autumn colour. Probably not for much longer though given this week’s weather forecast! 🌱

Tulips planted and squirrel protectors on - hope they work! 🤞🌱

Mahonia in full flow today and covered in bees 🙂