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As a gardener and garden designer being able to bend in the middle, whether to dig a hole to put a new plant in, pull out a weed or prune some annoying sucker on a rose bush is something I take for granted and do automatically day after day.

However sometimes sh*t really does happen, after a year of spending more time in pyjamas than I ever thought I would and finding that bending was virtually impossible at times (should have been obvious really when the holes that been made and the stitches holding me together were right in the middle).

Gardens have amazing therapeutic properties, even if you can’t work or potter in it for a while, just having a small green space to sit and be (and there are plenty of studies to bear this out). At first recovery started with sitting in the garden for a short while with the sun on my face, to longer spells in the garden and getting to the point at which I started looking at the weeds and thinking that really needs pulling up or those plants have taken off and should be pruned, staked… To moving on to being able to use a pair of secateurs to cut back anything that didn’t require stretching or bending and pointing to where I wanted a planting hole dug. And finally being able to kneel down with a trowel and plant small pots of perennials.

Knowing that I would be repeating all this again, working back up from staring at the garden )not sure how often I’ll be sitting out this autumn and winter, maybe it’s time to invest in a fire pit or supplies of hot chocolate), to trying to bend down and dig I thought that I would blog about ‘gardening in pyjamas’. So if you enjoy gardening in pyjamas, pottering or want to make the most of plants in a limited space I will be sharing what I get up over the coming months.

From increasing my houseplant collection (at the moment it is made up of herbs on the kitchen window sill, several orchids, a cyclamen, a Pilea peperomioides and a bowl of succulents that has now come inside for the winter). To sowing seeds (looking forward to experimenting with and increasing the number of annuals in the garden next year for cut flowers), growing bulbs in pots for indoor enjoyment (I love scented Paperwhites for Christmas, not only is the scent amazing but the indoor narcissus make me think that spring is just around the corner) and general gardening in small spaces (a kitchen window sill, a container by the door or a balcony).