Herds of deer regularly graze at dawn and dusk in the fields around our garden. When I walk in the woods surrounding our rural valley in West Sussex I get glimpses of them through the trees. Often I wonder where do they rest? This week my question was answered when I saw all these does ‘lying up’ […]
This time last year we had just moved into our house which meant we were rather busy. Now we’re settled I can pay attention to what April flowers are showing up in our garden. That is if they’re not all trampled by the pheasants who’ve been having a regular nosy around our flower beds. Last weekend
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Early March is a strange time. Winter’s over but spring’s not quite here. There are still snowdrops in my garden. I gaze at and collect tiny little flowers in wonder. The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” Gertrude Wister, Horticulturalist But it feels
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One frosty morning this week the sun was just beginning to rise over the hill in our valley. All was quiet upstairs but outside everything was stirring. As I focused on the trail into the woods, a deer suddenly came into view. And then it leapt across the field. A pheasant purposefully sauntered across the crispy
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I find in winter that I think of my garden in a series of glimpses. Most of the time we’re indoors at home, just glancing at the landscape outside the windows, but preferring to warm ourselves in front of the fire. Sunrises come and go with the frost. Most seeds are sleeping under the soil waiting
Although their leaves are turning to mini skeletons I feel rather reassured every time I arrive home and see our hydrangeas. It’s winter so they should be brown. It’s my first January observing our garden here in West Sussex so I’m not sure what should be and shouldn’t be growing. Every season there’s been a mixture of
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