The garden

November project…

My fork, minus its handle which broke some years ago. The business end is about fifty years old, and good…

3 years ago

Spotted these growths along grass stems in the wild flower meadow. Looks like an animal such as a dog or…

3 years ago

Poles apart.

It must be getting on for three years ago that BT surveyed our five (what I call- Ed.) telegraph poles…

3 years ago

Bulb time

As regular readers will recall, the garden is predominately a Spring one, when swathes of daffodils of all shapes and…

3 years ago

The log…

Remember the log which was abandoned by the storm in February? Well it’s still here despite the first surge of…

3 years ago

The Autumn garden

It is coming to the end of the summer and last gasps and thrusting shoots are the order of the…

3 years ago

Spuds…

Why are they called that? Anyway, one of the most exciting times of the year, digging up the potatoes. In…

3 years ago

The last rose of Summer.

Well, not quite, but the recent rain has certainly spurred on the plants which are desperate to set seed prior…

3 years ago

The first fruits…

From the leg-over apple trees (he means step-over - Ed.) planted two years ago. Three different ones and all in…

3 years ago

The dead parrot

You’ve seen the sketch (Monty Python - Ed.) with the dead parrot. “It is no more…”, “it is extinct…” and…

3 years ago