The garden

Late Summer colour

The Chinese call it late summer, the period between summer (everything fresh and bright), and autumn (everything jaded and prepping…

6 years ago

Warren refurbishment

The Warren makes a good home for the rabbits but it needs refurbishment, this end wall was in the worst…

6 years ago

It started out…

as a simple job of trimming the clematis and the forsythia and removing an old tree stump.  Easy enough, but…

6 years ago

The coppice…

Aka the wood, woodlet, we don’t know what to call this magical area. Nor do we know how to manage…

6 years ago

Manure management

  Manure management was a phrase in use when such enlightened perfectly expressive expressions were in use in "modern" management…

6 years ago

Blossom time

Blossom time at Merryhall.  It’s that time of year again.  Last year was a holiday for the trees, and fruiting…

6 years ago

Honesty

This year has been one of the best for us for flowering honesty.

6 years ago

Making the bed…

Making the bed is one of those tasks which needs doing, and the feel of freshly laundered sheets is hard…

7 years ago

Remember Polaroids?

Remember Poloaroids?  Those really compact (not), sleek (not), designed using form follows function principles (not), anyway they worked and this…

7 years ago

Statuesque Sycamores

Our statuesque sycamores against the bluest of blue skies.  No aircraft con-trails either.  We had a tree surgeon give us…

7 years ago