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.
The variety GEK is a very complex hybrid of Prunus cerasifera, Prunus
salicina, Prunus ussuriensis, Prunus simonii. Breed in Russia in 1995 from
a cross ...
There is no time like a heat wave to unlearn everything you thought you
knew about watermelon. I don’t need to tell you that a slice of fresh
watermelon ...
[image: Narrowboat sporting the saying "Not all who wander are lost"]
We've had a friend from Oz staying for a few days and whilst she's from the
UK origin...
Beth Chatto Gardens in springtimeIt's always a pleasure to visit the Beth
Chatto Gardens in Essex - a green oasis near Colchester, created from a
once-neg...
Melbourne had its hottest day in 5 years on Friday. It reached 44.5 in my
suburb and it felt every degree of that. I was a bit worried about my
plants but ...
Quite honestly, I’ve been wanting to make Elderflower cordial since I
started gardening. At first I was thwarted by simply not having an
Elderberry bush no...
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...
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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