Amazing Weeds We Love #3: Chickweed!
Weeds, ugh! With all the recent rain we’ve been having weeds seem to have taken over the gardens of Britain. If you are about to step out into your garden, don your gloves and start tackling those pesky unwanted plants …
Amazing Weeds We Love #2: Horsetail
Weeds, ugh! With all the recent rain we’ve been having weeds seem to have taken over the gardens of Britain. If you are about to step out into your garden, don your gloves and start tackling those pesky unwanted plants …
Amazing Weeds We Love #1: Nettles!
Weeds, ugh! With all the recent rain we’ve been having weeds seem to have taken over the gardens of Britain. If you are about to step out into your garden, don your gloves and start tackling those pesky unwanted plants …
Top Problems for Gardening Hands and How to Treat Them…Naturally
We love our gardens and so we should. Is there truly anything better than a warm summer’s day, enjoying the rewards of our hard work: lush green grass, beautiful scents, scintillating colours and the drone of happy bees. The problem …
What are the Best Natural Ingredients for Your Hands?
It’s very easy to take our hands for granted. Each day they do our bidding. Work or play, it’s our hands that do the graft. From the joys of washing up and gardening; working outside come rain or shine; even …
Top FIVE best natural ingredients for eczema
Itchy, rashy, sore…. …Eczema is an increasingly common skin condition typified by extremely dry skin, patches of inflammation and redness. It can be frustrating, painful and downright difficult to live with. When our wee daughter – Josie – started to …
You put horses in your hand cream?
No actually, we don’t. But we do use horsetail infusion in Viva la Diva, our delicious hand and nail cream. Horsetail is a slightly crazy plant that looks a little like a bottle brush. Now we’re not herbalists, but it …
Harvesting calendula
A little treat from our compost heap; literally hundreds of sunny calendula plants without us even planting a seed. And I couldn’t be happier (although I’m sure the courgettes, peas, broccalli and fennel could). These sunshine flowers are wonderfully soothing …