Every year in March I coppice one willow tree. This one willow tree produces the most vividly coloured stems. I sort the stems into different lengths in the potting shed…… ……. and then it’s a race against time to use it all up before it is too brittle to bend. … Read More »Willow weaving……of sorts….in a rudimentary fashion
It has been a really, really pretty day Happy gardener.
A recent visit to Bletchley Park – home to the Enigma code breakers during WW2 – has inspired me to rethink my blogposts. My Grandmother was one of the women who worked at Bletchley Park but she shared very, very little of her experience there with us, her family, and… Read More »A different view on this whole blogging malarkey
I could describe all of the horticultural tasks that I have undertaken so far this spring but instead I will bombard you with photos. It’s prettier! Tending to the houseplants. Watching the Pelargoniums come out of their winter dormancy. Getting far too excited when spring bulbs break the soil surface.… Read More »Spring 2015: so far so good
Tag line: I’ll never top the success of Swamp Donkey so I’m not going to even try. I haven’t written anything apart from ‘To do’ lists in over 1 month. I could fib and say that this is because it is March, one of the busiest gardening months, Spring is… Read More »Ruminations: Spring 2015
The exact origins of Swamp Donkey have been lost as time has passed but it is believed that she was discovered in a field near Salisbury in around 2002. Swamp Donkey appears annually in approximately November and can be sighted regularly through the winter months. If the winter is followed… Read More »Swamp Donkey
