April Chills. 7.4.21

I understand that there’s nothing exceptional about frosty weather at this time of year and indeed that a “white” Easter…

Our Easter Garden. (3.4.21)

Today is Easter Saturday – except that from the Christian perspective it isn’t really. Actually it’s Holy Saturday, the dramatic…

I do understand in my head that it is essential for a gardener to work with nature. There is a…

Today is the last day of meteorological winter, and so tomorrow is the first day of meteorological spring. It’s a…

Let’s not get carried away here! The snow has gone, and the “monthly outlook” on the BBC weather site seems…

It’s Saturday morning, about 0930, and it’s raining. The forecast suggests that it’ll keep raining until it starts sleeting and…

We were in the garden completing a few small tasks in and around the greenhouse when this “visitation” (is that…

We’re at the end of January – at least very nearly so – but certainly not at the end of…

……. or should I say Going and Coming? Going is the bowl full of Iris Reticulata “Katharine Hodgkin”. They’ve been…

Every time it snows – which in truth isn’t all that often even in West Yorkshire – the temptation is…