Susan Jones writes romantic drama with a touch of humour, and historical sagas as Lydia King. She lives in North Warwickshire, and loves walking through the beautiful woodlands where she lives, and gardening and reading are her pastimes.

Category: gardens

  • Here’s what’s coming soon, and there will be a giveaway on the blog, so watch out for that. Looking forward to the RNA conference in July, and meeting up with other pocket novelists and romatic authors. I’m busy writing my next story, which hopefully should be finished before long. I’m on chapter 10 of 15,…

  • We’re fully stocked with salad leaves. At the moment it’s all year round lettuce, spinach and rocket leaves available in the kitchen garden. And growing on we have yellow courgettes, mini munch cucumber, tomatoes, money maker are my favourite variety. As well, we have normal cucumber, green courgettes, dwarf beans, and dwarf peas, lots of…

  • Are you seeing signs of springtime around and about? Here’s a few pictures I captured in the garden earlier that show it’s only a matter of time before we have an explosion of colour and prettiness abound. Hope you enjoy the array of springtime flowers. Do you remember I was going to have a wardrobe…

  • Just back from a few days in the English Riviera. This time we found time to go on the Torquay Eye, that’s the view from the top. We also had chance to check up on the country estate, it was in a bit of a state, but the gardens are fabulous. Anybody know where it…

  • From the oxford dictionary The universe seen as a well-ordered whole. ‘he sat staring deep into the void, reminding himself of man’s place in the cosmos’  A system of thought. ‘the new gender-free intellectual cosmos’ An ornamental plant of the daisy family, which bears single dahlia-like flowers and is native to Mexico and warm regions…

  • Here’s our wedding photo from 2008. The reason I’m putting this here is because when I updated Facebook to put that I’m married, it immediately assumed I meant we’d got married on that day. So it doesn’t know much does it? I’m 12,000 words into the next book in the Redington/Country Matters series. This one’s…

  • Special people – happy times

  • Hello to all my lovely followers, I’ve neglected the blog a bit lately, as we’ve been away on a break, and also relaxing and doing things. We had a break in Torbay, so that gave us change to catch up with family, and get a pic of the pirate on the boat. Torre Abbey gardens…