I love how Camellias add a splash of colour to the late winter and early spring garden landscape. Now they’re full of budding, blooming and dying flowers as they mark the change of the season.
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I was in a bit of a quandary on what to do for my March nature notes until I stopped to take pictures of a blossoming tree in the historic hilltop village of West Hoathly in the Sussex countryside. I then remembered that The Priest House had opened this month again after the winter. I had
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There are quite a few farms on the country road where we live in West Sussex. For the last few weeks Luce and Theo have been peering out of the car window whenever we’ve passed a field with sheep in the hope of seeing baby lambs. Well, spring has arrived! This weekend they spotted their
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What is it about the arrival of spring that makes me want to seek colour? And pink? Despite my daughter telling me this week that she no longer likes the colour of pink, I needed the solace of this shade in nature to reaffirm to myself that winter had gone away. Off I went for
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In January Luce and Theo helped rebuild and set up a broken bird feeder platform in our garden. We wanted to attract wild birds to our garden especially during the cold weather. Well, they came! Now the platform and the ash tree next to it is rather a social hubbub for birds. Soon a wild pheasant, who
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I saw a rose bud this morning! It’s March and the sunshine is out but I didn’t expect to see a new rose when I went for an early morning walk. Perhaps it knows that Mother’s Day in Britain is almost here? “It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant
