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 in South East England surrounded…
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My winter garden – early February
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 water so I can watch…
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Wild flower path in Winter – January
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 it’s winter and more often…
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The secret lives of our winter garden birds
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 house I made sure we…
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A Field of Dahlias
I’ve been very quiet here lately. And, although the season for Dahlias has now ended, I must record my visit to a field of Dahlias this autumn. Actually it was late in the season when I discovered that one of the top Dahlia growers in the UK – Withypitts Dahlias – was located just outside a village near us in West Sussex. Off…
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A heathland valley rarer than a rainforest
A visit to a friend’s house last week admiring and picking her heather reminded me that I needed to take my twins for a walk exploring the heathland in Ashdown Forest. Nearly two thirds of it is heathland. “More than 80% of our lowland heaths have been destroyed since the 19th century. Even rarer than rainforest, heathland is one of…
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