Category Archives: News
Molly the Witch.
Or to be precise, Paeony Mlokosewitschii, is now flowering by the front drive. She is such a beautiful paeony, single with pale yellow petals and sensible enough to keep her petals closed when it is cold like today. I managed … Continue reading
Springtime foliage in April for GBFD.
Lovely new foliage is appearing on all the trees and shrubs now, in just a couple of weeks, bare trees have turned to such beautiful shades of green. The fresh greens of the hedges in all our lanes is such … Continue reading
April Flowers for GBBD.
This month of April is rushing by without giving me a chance to catch my breath and enjoy all that it has to offer. No sooner does one lot of plants come into flower, than another is pushing forward, trying … Continue reading
Who’s looking over our hedge?
Some of you may remember me writing a couple of posts about the land next door, in the grounds of what was the village school, being sold for development, click here and here if you would like to read about … Continue reading
It’s Blossom Time again.
The garden has been producing wave after wave of flowers, snowdrops, crocus, narcissus and now it’s blossom time once more. Time to lift up our heads and look above head height at all the flowers that are open at the … Continue reading
Through the window.
When starting the garden here, many, many years ago, I felt that whichever part we were doing had to look right from inside the house as well as from outside. So many times, I would mark things out, usually with … Continue reading
The Woodland in March. EOMV.
The white of the snowdrops has changed into the yellow of the narcissus, which means that the woodland looks totally different now that the warm sunshine has finished off the flowers of the snowdrops and crocus. Each day when I … Continue reading
Shhhh…. don’t tell the Pheasant!
I keep hearing the pheasant on the field next to us, I start getting worried when I hear him in the garden, I am really worried when I hear him in the woodland. So far I have chased him 3 … Continue reading
St. Patrick, King Alfred and friends.
This year St. Patrick is just a week late, last year he was a whole month late, presumably because of the ice and snow that we had last March. St. Patrick has only just started to open, but better late … Continue reading
Foliage for March. GBFD.
The beautiful warm sunshine that we have enjoyed for about two weeks has unfortunately gone, the wind has turned from the warm south and is now coming from the icy north! The warm spell has meant that new growth has … Continue reading