The Last of the Summer Wine
It was only as I switched on the kitchen light the other night, about 10pm, that I realised the long summer evenings are coming to a close as the year turns onwards through the...
Tagged: gardening
Summertime & the Potatoes are Flowering
Ripen in the Sun In every garden and municipal border roses, irises, clematis and lupins are flowering, vegetables are maturing and in sunny corners, the blackcurrants are beginning to bruise over as the deep...
Are the Fairies ‘Singin’ in the Rain’?
Unusually, for early June it has been raining a lot recently but when out and about, it seems to me that many of our wild animals don’t seem to mind this too much and...
May ‘Blossom Time’
One of the abiding joys of Spring is the fact that many deciduous trees waken up from their winter dormancy and burst into flower. They are festooned in fragile blossom and look absolutely stunning...
‘Flying ‘Peacocks’ and an ‘Albatross’
‘Peacock’ butterfly A hive of activity There is a lot of activity at the house just now because we have had various teams carrying out surveys. Ecology, topographical and geophysical surveys – basically attempting...
‘March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers’
Spring is well ahead this year. We had deep, lying snow at the beginning of March 2018 and some very low overnight temperatures, but this year has been the warmest February to date and...
“Green winter, white Easter?”
On New Year’s Day, 2019, I went up to the house to feed our stray cat and came home with three snowdrop flowers. Such a mild start to 2019, I’m sure you’ll agree, but...
Sleeping Giants
“If you have nothing to do, go plant a tree and it will grow while you sleep” Hard-working Team All our gardening work is carried out by a hard-working, cheery team of volunteers who...
Autumn Colours & Lime Trees
“The falling leaves Drift by the window The autumn leaves Of red and gold…” Autumn Colours What a stunning, colourful Autumn this has turned out to be. The leaves are such wonderful shades...
Pignut and Chimney-Sweepers
If you are lucky enough, as we are, to have a long-established grassland meadow which is not being heavily grazed, you will by now be able to see lots of Pignut flowers flexing in...
