Fennel and Fern » The July wrap-up

July 31, 2011

by F&F

The big news today is that our site has been redesigned. Hoorah! Our new sleek and ever so chic site is a lot more fun than the last, and a lot easier to navigate too. It also has fabulous fun features like a slider of all the Good Growing Guides. And if you’re browsing on your smartphone, you’ll notice we have a mobile version as well. How thoughtful of us.

{From the archive}

July 2010

Pink Fir Apple Potato
Cherry-aid
Marvellous mangetout

July 2009

Garden soldiers
Kitsch cake
Balcony gardening

{Top three posts for May 2011}

{Hot posts and stories from the web}

Susy Morris from Chiot’s Run left her leeks to flower this year, and how gorgeous they looked.

Willi at DigginFood grows some marvellous pea shoots to eat.

Veronica blogs about a green roof at Through the Garden Gate.

The Vale Grower has snapped some gorgeous photos of his Persian Buttercups.

Our good friends Freshly Forked have launched their own gardening blog.

{F&F on BBC 6 music}

A couple of weeks ago, we got a call from BBC Radio 6 music, who said they loved F&F so much that they wanted to feature us on Lauren Laverne’s show. So we sent the marvellous Sarah Bird along to chat to Lauren about why she is part of the blog. You can listen to Sarah here.

{Garden guru}

Are you an inspirational gardener? If you have done something incredible with your own plot, then you could win £1,000, a year’s supply of Ronseal products and the chance to become a national gardening ambassador.

Ronseal are looking for new garden gurus, and if you think you stand a chance, email gardengurus@lucre.co.uk with the following:

1. Your name, age and address
2. Up to 150 words on why you deserve to win
3. A recent photograph of your garden or scanned garden design/sketch that you have hand-drawn

Entries must be received before midday GMT on Tuesday, August 9th 2011.

{Wedding flowers}

Remember Bella & Fifi, who we featured three years ago in the very early days of this blog? Well, I was ever so thrilled to catch an email from them this week telling me that their amazing organic ethical flower company is going from strength to strength, and they are now expanding to provide wedding flowers in Devon. So if you’re getting married any time soon…

{Clever gardeners do this…}

Order some Saffron crocus bulbs now to grow your own supply of this gorgeous, expensive spice.

{Plant of the month}

The beautiful crushed-strawberry-flowered Digitalis x mertonensis

{Most active F&F member}

Bex Saunders

Visit GardenGrab for more of the most gorgeous gardening blogs out there.

And don’t forget to enter snaps of your amazing harvests into our photography challenge to win a £10 Freshly Forked voucher.