Well I guess if this is it we just have to pretend…… The shop in Holt is about to open, we are excitedly amassing goodies and assembling stock; hanging prints and also meeting new artists about showing their work. The shop, bless it, is not the prettiest building in the world but between us we will make it...

It finally feels like spring is in the air, that magical point when the ground elder overtakes the dying bulbs!Our shop in Norwich is about to have a spring clean and a lick of paint and we are busy filling the new glass extension with homegrown plants-I really enjoy helping people decide on different species and explaining where they...

Another thing that has kept us busy this spring is the arrival on the 8th of March of a litter of 7 maremma sheepdog puppies. This was not a planned event but the result of my errant son not listening to me (again!) and leaving the wrong door open at the wrong time! We have had Maremmas for over twenty...