The laurel and hedging is looking rather pretty at the moment despite the greyness of the days. How I wish these hellebores could raise their sorrowful heads. Suddenly, crocus are everywhere. Touch wood, the rain hasn’t damaged their delicate flowers yet. This little yellow one certainly wasn’t planted by me. I just love the dark …
Daphne I haven’t had a good look around the garden of late, given the endless, grim weather. The watercress seems to have been steadily growing all year. I noticed the first hellebore buds… and the winter box is blooming, oh, the scent is just lovely. The first bulbs are pushing through, daffodowndillies methinks… and I’ve …
While walking I came across the first of the daffodils, they and other spring bulbs are later than last year, maybe the cold spell contributed to the delay. Snowdrops though, are absolutely abundant this year, there are carpets of them lining the waterways and grassy verges. I also spotted a couple of ladybirds amongst them. …
Most of the UK has been swaddled beneath a blanket of snow, yet here barely a flake has fallen, much to my disappointment. Don’t get me wrong, it gets old fast when it lingers and turns to ice, but one deep, transforming fall would be fun. It’s been bitterly cold here of late, as I …
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Another delightful house plant has arrived. This little beauty is a Schefflera hybrid and it’s bare roots grow through and over the black lava rock. All it needs is plenty of water. How fascinating eh? It’s really thrilling watching my living stones opening up and pushing through new leaves. Apparently the old leaves die back …
Hubs, Littl’urchin and I drove through the front gates recently, only to find a silver birch tree lying along the entire length of the drive. Given it was dark and raining, hubs valiantly dragged the tree, single handed, into the old wildlife area. This is the second time a silver birch has come down, miraculously …
I was almost blinded by a blue sky recently, I simply cannot recall the last time I saw one. Most days have been like this, bitterly cold, grey, gloomy, wet and windy. I’m so glad I wrapped the lemon tree, although I suspect it’s dropping it’s leaves under the cover. I’m surprised by how well …
As I’ve told you before, we have several tame robins at the rescue. They are all born wild, but have got so used to people that they will often flutter into the hoghouse and sit on the table, merrily twittering for a titbit, so of course we put a little seed out for them. And, …
Right…..let’s get straight down to the mushrooms. I really must wax lyrical about my first batch. I picked about twenty of them with the vague idea of sharing ….and I was drooling at this point, let me tell you. So I plucked a chili from the greenhouse and a few fresh herbs that are still …
Last year was one of the wettest years on record and most of my fruit and veg was ruined. This year I’m hoping and praying for better weather, but so far there’s little sign of improvement as it’s still constantly raining or snowing and it’s freezing, and I mean perishingly cold which makes it hard …
