Let me introduce to you Alison's garden. She is our next door neighbour living at the bottom of our track. As we extend the gardens here...

Some time ago Steve spotted a dog on a rescue site, well the owners Facebook page. A dog perfectly healthy, but going to be put down as...

For our followers I'm sorry we've not been able to entertain you with a new blog for a while.... we've been interrupted with several...

There have been big changes in the last 12months. Emma and I moved not only the nursery but out home from South Manchester suburbia to...

I can't get over how much has changed here, how structure is slowly being imposed over what was grassy fields and paddocks with rough...

Well this week has gone really well. We've started laying a stone path outside the rear of the house, the main highway between the back...

Husband and wife team, pack of dogs, smallholding and a plant nursery, showing you the fun of the dirty side of clean living.

Welcome to the first blog post from the Nantlle Valley. We moved 8 weeks ago, and we are finally settled. We have some sort of routine...

I think at times like this having somewhere to vent your frustrations and your hopes can be useful, a form of therapy even. We've got so...

I write this taking some quiet time for myself. The birds are secure, we've left the nursery early today. We'd given the dogs a big run...

Since we started this project a number of years ago, it might seem from the outside that some decisions recently that we've made have...

Late last year we made a decision. We need to move. We've been building the business, growing plants, playing, doing serious work...

We didn’t start the year with New Year resolutions. However, the start of a new year can’t be ignored. It provides the perfect...

We started with a beautiful site, nice curves and contours. I can't help but see the potential in anything I look at, so naturally I made...

Now that we had our chickens then a daily routine settled into our lives. We would arrive at the nursery early and let the girls out of...

After the instructions for building the potting shed had ended up in the bin before the first wall was up, I didn't hold out much hope...

Why grow your own fruit and veg? It’s a question I’m sure none gardening people might ask. When you can pop to your local supermarket and...

Four days or so before my birthday, a family member offered to buy me some Indian Runner Ducks if I wanted. So that week a time was set...

The Building Paradise story line will be back soon, so for this week we are focusing on January jobs on the nursery and what you can do...

I should have known really, but putting up our potting shed was a lot harder than I anticipated. We had gone for quite a large, tall shed...