Comedy culinairy capers are very easy to make and you do not even have to have a Capparis spinosa aka a Caper bush growing in your garden. Just plain old Nasturtiums will do. You do grow the… Read More

After waiting for 10 years, I finally have my pond. Huzzah! *does Snoopy Dance Of Joy* Next up will be fish, I cannot imagine a pond without them. I've missed the fish in my old pond very mu… Read More

What a difference the new fence makes. Where once there was an extremely ugly and very, very large Leylandii hedge there is now a fence. An edible one. Pretty too. Before After All in al… Read More

A few years ago I wrote a blogpost and was very surprised by the response I got about 1 particular picture I had posted of a slice of bread with radishes. Eating radishes on bread is somethi… Read More

Get a wildlife pond, they said. I did It will be easy to make, they said. It was. A wildlife pond will look ever so pretty, they said. It does. It will attract loads of wildlife to yo… Read More

When I tell people that I grow my own food most of them seem to think that I grow rows and rows of leeks, spuds and cabbages in my kitchen garden. I don't. What's the point? Firstly I don't… Read More

And thems are rich pickings, very much so. This extraordinary weather we've been having since late March has been a great help in making the pickings extra rich. It's not every year that Sum… Read More

so consider yourself warned. Can't say that I've found much, if any evidence of bad-temperedness when I read the book but o well, the title is a gentle snook cocking at the book The Well Tem… Read More

There's a rat in me garden - what am I gonna do? There's a rat in me garden - what am I gonna do? Surprise admiring the Springflower meadow I'm gonna fix that rat - that's what I am gonn… Read More

We've been having the most delish weather lately so I'm making the most of it while it lasts. It's finally Spring and I'm loving it because it looks good, it smells good, it feels good and i… Read More

And it's not what you think. It never is, because after all, this is Bliss, don't you know? Before I show you the bananas thingy, first some gratuitous pics of the potager where yours truly… Read More

Those of you who visit Bliss regularly, know that I'm very keen on wildflower meadows. And frankly who wouldn't, as they are so incredibly beautiful. You have to be a real sourpuss indeed no… Read More

It's Bloom Day, but there is nobody here but us, chickens! That's right, 10 cats and one small dog were not enough so now I've added a few chooks to the mix as well. They are Australorp chi… Read More

Every year I'd like to try something new and this year is no exception. As you have gathered from the title I thought I'd try my hand at growing my very own mushrooms. I'd seen starter kits… Read More

We are in the midst of winter and not much is going on in the Bliss garden. The Viburnum Bodnantense Dawn is in flower and fills the garden with a delightful scent, the Winter Jasmin is doin… Read More

The Mora clock is ticking the hours away. Not long now before it's Christmas. It's going to be another White Christmas this year, same as last year. Very unusual as we've had only 7 times a… Read More

 Tara and Merlin (R)  This year I had to face two of my worst fears concerning my cats. You've read about one of them here but in March of this year another of my worst nightmares… Read More

In a land far, far away, there is a garden where magical creatures live. Somtimes, if you are very lucky, doubting Thomas, you'll find a sign that those magical creatures truly do exist, lik… Read More

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ..... Don't worry Christmas isn't upon us. Yet! Just trying to capture that image that says Autumn like nothing else. Roasted chestnuts is one of those ima… Read More

I'm nuts about ferns as they are so frilly and have such a fab green colour. I love watching fern fronds unfurl in Spring. And because I love ferns so much I decided to make a stumpery in a… Read More

Granted I do indulge in the odd topiary ball or two and even have a few cone shapes as well, but that is where I draw the line topiary-wise. Not everybody feels that this is where the topiar… Read More

Getting my salad together for February was quite an ordeal after that prolonged spell of heavy frost. Gone were most of the plants that so amply provided me and me chooks with greens over th… Read More

I like setting myself goals to achieve in the garden. My first goal was to have something in flower in my garden all year long. That proved to be a very easy goal to reach as I garden in zon… Read More

Amaryllis Alfresco Russian Blues Merlin (l) and his Mum Delia Tasty & colourful salad from my potager today My tree is still there to brighten up my day Harvested last… Read More

Merry Christmas from all of us at Bliss: Vita, Pippa, Dolly, Willow, Delia, Merlin, Surprise, Kadootje, Macavity & Jeeves, doggy Tara and me. XX copyright 2011; Y.E.W. Heuzen Read More