With this glorious weather we have had recently, we have loved our countryside walks. Roadside verges, hedges and fields full of wild plants and flowers, provide the habitat loved by bees, butterflies, and all manner of other insects.

For the last few years environmental issues have started to have an increasing influence on exhibits at the major UK gardening shows. Allotment gardening, planting for biodiversity, bee-friendly gardening, gardening for physical and mental health, have been some of the issues changing garden design. This welcome trend continued at the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival that just finished.

Have you had a chance to visit the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival this year? We have and it was amazing – after the long break caused by the pandemic …. gardens, people, flowers… all in one place! Finally!

The longest day of the year is here. SeeHow Volume 1 has now been available to buy for just over 6 months. This has been a busy time for us, monitoring the growth of flowering plants wherever possible, to compare with SeeHow’s beautiful life-cycle illustrations. We have also been checking peoples’ gardens to see what is growing – thinking ahead about SeeHow Volume 2. Actually, it was really encouraging to see so many plants growing that are in SeeHow Volume 1!

Launching a new product in the middle of a global pandemic – seems a bit surreal – maybe even a little crazy! Of course it was not planned this way. The Seehow garden planning tool has been three years in the making, from first doodles, to the product now available containing 140 beautiful hand-drawn unique illustrations – the building blocks of Seehow that we call ‘plantsticks’.