by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Gallery |
The Shasta Daisy is a perfect, low maintenance perennial and is great for naturalizing to fill out your flower beds with blooms year after year.
They will flower from early to late summer and deadheading the spent flowers will extend their bloom period.
Grow in full sun for the best blooms.
To keep them vigorous, divide them in early spring or late summer every 3 to 4 years. They will also self-seed if you leave some of the spent blooms on the plant at the end of the summer even though the plants that grow from seed may not look like the parent plant.
In the fall, after they have finished blooming, cut back the dead stems to ground level, and cover with a layer of mulch to provide winter protection.
by Meriel Bradley | Baking, Food |
This recipe makes a muffin that is bursting with flavour.
Using ready-made apple sauce means that the prep time is fast with great apple flavour without the need to peel and chop up your apples.
This will be one of your go-to muffin recipes and makes a great breakfast muffin or snack. They freeze really well if 12 is too many or you want to double up to make 24, but the recipe is also really easy to divide into half and just make 6.
by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Gallery, Garden Wildlife |
Tips for a bee friendly garden:
Choose native plants, trees, and shrubs rich in pollen and nectar
Provide continuous bloom so you always have plants blooming from spring until fall
Many native bees build nests in soil, so leave some bare patches and limit your use of mulch
Provide fresh water
Make or buy a bee house
Don’t spray pesticides – garden organically
by Meriel Bradley | Baking, Food |
If you are feeling like something sweet, this tasty no bake treat whips up in no time – you just have to be a little patient while it cools and sets.
This is a very British recipe and most Brits would know what golden syrup is. You can substitute the golden syrup with corn syrup with similar results. Golden syrup is thicker and has a bit more of a brown sugar taste.
by Meriel Bradley | Baking, Food |
Melting Moment cookies are easy to make and very quick to make and start by simply melting the butter in a pan.
They are a soft, buttery and melt in your mouth cookie.
I like to keep things very simple with the jam thumbprint, but they can be dressed up and sandwiched with a butter cream or drizzled with chocolate ganache.
