Tag: Bird Feeding

Yellow has arrived

Posted on 17 April 20133 November 2015 by John

Celandine is appearing everywhere, despite all my efforts to eradicate it, the various red, blue and mauve primulas I planted around the garden are hiding while yellow ones appear in beds and borders ... Read More

A potter here and a potter there

Posted on 18 May 20123 November 2015 by John

I have reached the end of what I’d call a pottering week. This is partly because the weather people forecast a dismal week for that just gone and so I completely knackered myself last weekend. The w... Read More

The birds (after Hitchcock)

Posted on 29 January 20123 November 2015 by John

At this time of year, the planting side of the garden is rather peaceful. There’s not a lot you can do after the borders are tidied up, the clematis cut down and the mass of leaves that fall off nex... Read More

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