The garden

A new broom.

A new broom sweeps clean, so they say (Ed. - Who’s they? Need some attribution here), but when to replace?…

4 years ago

Edgin’ our beds

Well, everything’s gone mad! Dry April, wetter than usual May, and more to the point, it was colder than usual.…

4 years ago

The Spanish variant…

Is taking over and there’s nothing we can do. No anecdote about sombreros, no antidotes or arm filling, no detracting…

4 years ago

What a turvy-topsy world…

April was the driest for some years, and not for the first time we had an absence of April showers…

4 years ago

Bluebells.

Native bluebells are out and springing up in the most unlikely places. Just singles, maybe a couple or a small…

4 years ago

Temptation.

Apples are the key to Eden. The gentle hum (buzz is too noisy a word) of bees, the grasshopper chirruping,…

4 years ago

Two into one won’t go.

Near the river gate we put a fence to protect the entrance from the Donks who persisted in eating the…

4 years ago

Frogs porn…

This year the frogs have been busy, as usual, doing what comes naturally which has meant that the pond has…

4 years ago

Spring is

a hatched egg. Two of these in different areas of the garden. It is difficult for our highly sophisticated and…

5 years ago

Crocus…

White crocus have appeared in the wild flower meadow, unusual and so unspoiled. White crocus

5 years ago