Hardcore potterer based in deepest, darkest Hampshire. By day, I work in sales and manage the social media for a well-known plant nusery. By evening and candlelight, I'm a gardener, blogger and auricula lover. Follow along via Twitter @ChelseaPelly or Instagram ChelseaPelly.
Wait, come back! No matter how charming Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood made
them look on that early episode of Great British Bake Off, I know how most
of ...
Completion of a five-year restoration project, costing £41million, heralded
the re-opening of the Temperate House at Kew Gardens at the beginning of
May. ...
[image: View from Mount Bonnell, Austin, Texas showing rock, sculptural
trees and Lake Austin]
I'm back from a wonderful week in Austin where the Garden Bl...
I couldn’t make a living from gardening. There are many reasons for this,
the main one being that I’m a bit too slap-dash, not taking quite enough
time an...
Fig – Persian Green – temporarily withdrawn for sale. Due to Paypal’s
investigation into the sale of Iranian goods, and the downgrading of my
Paypal acco...
Riding the D010 along Turkey's Black Sea coast The 1,200 miles across
Turkey was a good time for reflection. The days were warm and the nights
cool. Most o...
It’s been a pretty good summer so I thought I’d post some photos of it. My
greenhouse is still going strong. I do need to clean the windows a lot and
I had...
It seems ages since I posted a recipe (probably because it is ages since I
posted a recipe). It’s the time it takes -to make it, and photograph it.
It al...
Blogging feels very retro these days. I started this blog in 2009 and then
abandoned it in 2012 and lately I've been thinking about getting back on it
agai...
Amazing how we grow and evolve. We follow our passions and goals; they
evolve and come in and out of focus. For example, I started this blog
because I l...
There’s no denying that when you live in a place you often don’t make an
effort to visit many of its attractions, probably because you think that
there wil...
First time a bait hive has worked for me. I have swarms arrive and take up
residence in piles of bee boxes, where they weren't welcome, but never into
a p...
Don’t own acres of rolling New Zealand countryside or a trusty beekeeping
outfit? Here’s my cheat’s guide to making your very own ‘mocknuka’ honey
from h...
Joseph Strutt, *A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of
England*, First published in 1796, reprinted, 1841.
From this terrific yellow cov...
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And a very pretty one at that.
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