Oaktree Home and Garden

A house without a hanging basket in the summer looks naked. Imagine in your mind the typical English village where the cottages have roses growing around the front door and hanging baskets on either side, yet apparently we have the Americans to thank for introducing Hanging Baskets into this country, I have yet to research […]

Last week, the first in May, right on cue I heard the cuckoo for the first time this year. It heralded a week of torrential rain, not quite what the cuckoo had in mind but no doubt welcomed by gardeners whose soil had already become too hard to dig and whose lawns had started turning […]