Hedgerow foraging – Elderflowers
Elderflowers, elderflowers everywhere! The perfumed scent of elderflowers has been following me in the early mornings signalling the start of the summer season. In the […]
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Nature Diary
Nature notes and photography of flora and fauna during the changing seasons.
Rhododendron Feast
Last weekend we were at a barbecue at friends here in West Sussex. I had a rhododendron feast. Part of their garden was planted a hundred years
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The awakening
In early spring when my usual route into the woodlands became too muddy, I headed to another part of the woods where there’s a pine plantation. The
A deer view
Almost daily when I look out of the windows there’s a herd of fallow deer grazing in the field in the valley where we live.
Chiddingstone Castle – authors, eccentrics and gardens
It was by chance that I discovered Chiddingstone Castle. I was told that an old friend I hadn’t seen in years – Virge Gilchrist –
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It’s tulip time
I visited Gravetye Manor’s gardens yesterday to see what was blooming. Frank Sinatra’s song ‘It had to be you’ suddenly was in my head when