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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A fun way for kids to play with mud and clay are to mix seed bombs. The seed bombs are a mix of compost, clay and seeds which will grow into wildflowers that are friendly to bees, birds, bugs and butterflies. My children learnt how to make wildflower seed bombs when we went to a botanical
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These last days of March I’ve finally felt the season changing. Something about the light and a subtle warmth in the air. Baby lambs are now in the fields. The crescendo of bird song in the garden is beautiful. I even made a spring wreath for our front door. A mixture of fresh and dried
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One of the most stunning spring sights in Britain is woods filled with bluebells. Already now in March, if you take a walk in any of the ancient woodlands or parks, you can see their green shoots everywhere. Oh so soon these woods will be shimmering with violet blue flowers to make our hearts sing! My
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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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There are some who don’t like Dungeness because this headland in Kent resembles a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There are those who are bewitched by the unusual pulchritude of its landscape. It is a place where the vast sky is dominant in the summer and the salty winds incessant in the winter. “Dungeness, Dungeness, your beauty is the best,
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