SILVER TREES

I love recipes that have been handed down or gifted to me from family and friends. This gingerbread is definitely top of that list. It...

Not bad for a first picking of strawberries. We don’t have loads of plants but this year looks like it could be a fruitful one. The only...

Who would have thought I'd be spending a day making masks for family and friends? It is actually really good to be using some of my...

With this unexpected more time at home I have been busy “doing“! But I have been aware that lots of people have been trying their hand at...

Walking around the garden taking in all the beautiful flowers and smells, I noticed some rather stunning visitors. On our precious apple...

I make quite a lot of cherry cakes as it's a family favourite. Sometimes I add a handful of chopped glace cherries to a victoria sponge...

Whilst on a local dog walk today, dropping a birthday card off to a friend, I was on the look out for elderflowers in bloom. I’ve never...

I had a pack of smoked mackerel in the fridge and some lovely olive bread in the freezer so thought I would make a quick creamy mackerel...

We have a few sculptures (or features!) made by Head Gardener dotted around Silver Trees, but there are also some natural living ones...

My favourite rose has just opened up in the sun today. It doesn't have a perfume but it makes up for that in its beauty. We are lucky...

I wonder how many of you have had food delivery mis-understandings? I managed to order rather too much broccoli (I know it could have...

We are always so pleased to see these beautiful poppies reappear every year. This year we have a good number of flower heads to look...

We don't have much rhubarb this year but the lovely pink stems were very inviting today whilst I was weeding the veggie patch! So I made...

In normal circumstances we would have had a lovely tea party with family and friends. However it is just the three of us at home. That...

So lovely to see the seeds starting to grow and the fruits of our labour developing. No veggie patch should be without runner beans or...

Today is a lovely sunny but chilly day in May & I thought I could use my time wisely. So I have prepared a huge family favourite. Using...

So lovely to see the chickens all in a dust bath together. They are such interesting characters. There is definitely a pecking order with...

Not being able to visit garden centres at the moment it quite hard. So we’re trying to use any seeds we have and also finding any plants...

Tea leaves in a teapot or teabag in a cup? That is the question. Having a bit more time at the moment I’ve perfected the amount of loose...

Definitely a soup day today...weather has changed to wet and much cooler. However the garden is in great need of water so I’m not...