Each year I like to take a look at which posts from the previous year have been the most popular and while I’m at it I also take a look at the posts that have been around for a while and still get looked at, and I like to share that each year. Yes, it’s nerdy, but I love it. I’m not sure why but there’s often surprises along the way, in both lists - so let’s get on with it, shall we.
Starting with my most popular posts from 2025, I loved the Unearthed exhibition so it was great to see that post topping the list:
1 Previewing Unearthed: The Power of Gardening at the British Library (Ad)
An exhibition about gardening, and at the British Library - which despite living in London for a very long time I’d never been to! It was great to be invited along to the preview and help share the word about this fabulous exhibition, which a cut down version of later toured the country. I’d love to know your views on it if you managed to get along to it.
2 Traditional Quilts by Hopkin Rees at the Newark Quilt Show
It’s great to see one of my posts from the Newark Quilt Show on this list, and the quilts by Hopkin Rees are amazing. It’s my local quilt show - just ten minutes or so down the road from home, and a bright spot in any January!
3 The Chef's Table by Adam Frost (Ad)
If I’m honest, this would be my perfect garden - and you can see why my love for succulents everywhere has come from! Actually, when I can I move into this garden? I know I can’t, but if I could, I would!
4 Gardeners' World Live 2025: Win a pair of tickets for Sunday 15 June (Ad)
Thankfully I’m not the only one that’s a fan of Gardeners’ World Live, and once again my competition post makes this list, so that’s good to know. I’m proud to partner with the Gardeners’ World Live team on this, and hope this partnership will continue.
5 The Biba Story: The outfits
This post is quite a different genre to my other posts, but I’m glad it’s here - and I was pleased to get along to see The Biba Story for myself, again in a museum I’d never been to while I actually lived in London. I guess somehow museums weren’t always on my radar in my busy working life!
6 Inside the fabric and haberdashery departments at Liberty
It seems I’m not the only one to enjoy a look around these departments in Liberty, and it’s easy to see why. I did leave with a couple of pieces of material, which I haven’t used yet, so I was quite restrained as I could have left with so much more quite easily!
7 Make a Metre Matter with Gardeners' World (Ad)
Another Gardeners’ World post on this year’s list, this one is a pre-show post that encourages us all to Make a Metre Matter - and that’s all it takes to make a meaningful difference.
8 Gardeners' World Live: What a show! (Ad)
We’re not done with the love for Gardeners’ World Live just yet - you loved this post almost as much as I loved the show. Choosing one photo to represent the show was tricky, but I’ve gone for Nick Bailey’s Make a Metre Matter garden and his rows of cabbages - I still want to grow any kind of vegetables in straight lines, maybe one day!!
9 Revisiting the Orangery at Belton
This is one of my favourite places, and one I’ve realised as I’m writing this post that I don’t get to visit as much as I could, or should. Belton is our nearest National Trust garden, so there’s really no reason not to get myself along there more often, is there?
10 Floral Art at the Devon County Show
There’s some truly amazing floral displays in this post, and who wouldn’t want to wear a hat such as this?
So that’s quite a list, and it’s great to see some of my favourite posts and places appear again.
So onto the second list
This list is posts created at any time by viewed in 2025, the year in brackets is the year it was originally posted - and this list is often very similar to the previous year, although often the order changes somewhat - and it has this year too, though not number one slot!
Filling our gabion baskets (2017)
Previewing Unearthed: The Power of Gardening at the British Library (Ad) (2025)
Our first visit to the Newark Garden Show (2024) new
Bagels, cream cheese & jam (2023)
Planting a strawberry border (2016)
There’s two new entries this year, but only one of those posts - Previewing Unearthed (at number 3) is from this year. The other new entry is at number 5, a post from last year which shares more from our first visit to the Newark Garden Show, which is another great local show.
Thanks for being here again over the past year, and bearing with me with this post which you know appeals to my inner nerd. I already can’t wait to see what this year brings!
I’ve added the *AD tag to some of the post links above as they contains links to posts which were declared as ads when they were published on my blog.