Laetitia Maklouf

 

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View fullsize Let there be light 💫💫💫💫 #beautifulspain #mimosa #farmlife #familychristmas
View fullsize It’s Christmas on Instagram...and I haven’t shared my #wreath 😱 How very impolite of me 😂 This year I got my big bit of satin ribbon and hoiked up the succulent wreath I made with @the_rhs last year (you can find the how-to on their fe
View fullsize Pea shoots are a jolly good idea at this time of year (or any). 1. They’ll grow happily in your kitchen. 2: they’ll provide you with instant, cut-your-own at the table salad that even children will eat. 3: they are perfect for children to
View fullsize About 300 years ago @speediemeadie66 shot a photo of me, laughing with carrots during the very lengthy day it took to capture an image for the cover of my first book #thevirgingardener. I was a different person then (no children, not yet married...th
View fullsize Glorious little raindrop-blobbed buds of joy. I finally chopped the sedum down today (when something is yucky or slimy or mushy it needs to go) and look what’s going on underneath! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 This was my five minutes today, along with wakin
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View fullsize Scrolling through last year and whizzed on past my pesky kids to see the plants...(anyone else?) Anyway the fiddle leaf fig (an ikea purchase) has grown SO big since this photo! I’ll post a pic of it tomorrow and let you know exactly how neglec
View fullsize Hands up if you’re still planting bulbs! 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️ . . . . #thefiveminutegarden #fiveminutegarden #autumnplanting #tulips #inmygardentoday #bulbplanting #frommyhometoyours #storiesoftheeveryday #on
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View fullsize Scented leaved pelargoniums... still going strong. Won’t let you down. Like EVER. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 Lions from @spencer_swaffer #thefiveminutegarden #fiveminutegarden #winterbeauty #pelargonium #inmygardentoday #frommyhometoyours #storie
View fullsize I love this picture! And before you ask me where the plants are, go and listen to my latest podcast where I talk to @cleve_west - garden design legend and passionate advocate for a PLANT BASED LIFE...so the plants are INSIDE HIM. 😂. We also chat abo
View fullsize Love an outdoor shelf 💚💚💚💚💚 This is my mother’s shelf where she puts some of her houseplants for their summer holiday. It’s in a courtyard so no harsh direct sunlight and sheltered, and crucially up high, away from slimy things and a
View fullsize Back when I was deadheading most days and the small chair stayed out there most nights 💓💓💓 First truly crisp day of this autumn and more bulbs went in (still not done yet but slowly slowly!) and the cover of my new book got signed off... so excite
View fullsize Slowly slowly in they go! #bulbplanting #fiveminutesatatime 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 . . . . . #thefiveminutegarden #fiveminutegarden #autumnvibes🍁 #fallingforfall #alliumgiganteum #inmygardentoday #frommyhometoyours #storiesoftheeveryday #oneperfectth
View fullsize One of my evergreen pots, to which I sporadically add colour, as and when I need it. Here are some bright pink cyclamen, (complete with their plastic pots may I add... I won’t be planting them ‘properly’ at all) plonked within the f
View fullsize Five minutes to finish mowing the lawn today (an endeavour begun on Tuesday, and abandoned because #motherhood). A mown lawn is sort of life-changing, particularly if I am feeling paralysed by the weight of ALL OF THE THINGS. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
View fullsize {#AD} I’ve fallen in love with a rake…not the dissolute, promiscuous, well-to-do kind…nope - the sort that separates fallen leaves from your lawn! And why am I so batty about my new rake? Because it’s NOT JUST A RAKE&hellip
View fullsize Can’t really control self. Not sure how it’s possible that I’ve never been here before because I often roam in these ferny, mossy, leaf-littered woodland spaces and on these broken-covered hills, and in these black lapping lakes in