“Nature never did betray…The heart that loved her…For she can so inform the mind that is within us.” From The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden And so begins The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady – open on my botanical desk on a November day with its drawing of dock seed. […]
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It’s snowdrop season! From January to March – depending on regions and the weather – carpets of snowdrops in woodlands, meadows and gardens signal the end of winter and the promise of spring. Now I might be enthusiastic about walks where I can admire these harbingers of spring but I want my kids – nine
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I’m going to confess straight away that I was rather thrilled when I was offered a wood watch by JORD to review. The Cora Series Zebrawood & Rose woman’s wood watch was perfect for my winter time wardrobe. After all my life now is often all about trees and roses. I live in a valley
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I’m lucky as we have a winter garden. It’s my winter therapy to see that there are some plants growing and flourishing in the winter months. Not surprisingly inside our house and in a sheltered area of my side garden I have lots of potted bulbs. I also have vases filled with tree twigs in
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I call it the wild flower path. It’s just around the corner from our home. It’s one of the paths that leads into the woodlands that surrounds our valley here in West Sussex. On either side of this path are woods. When the wild flowers and orchids bloom I know the season has changed. Now
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I feel guilty when I run out of bird food in the winter. The little garden birds pop back and forth to my feeders checking if they have been refilled. I can see them fluttering in and out of the bare branches in the hedgerow waiting. My husband joked that when we moved into our
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