To anyone who knows about the cultivation of Irises, this runs the risk of being seriously boring. I know very…
Surprised by a precocious Iris!
It’s cold today and was even colder last night. Indeed the prospects for the next few days are cold, with…
Our 2021 Garden : January
I tried this sort of sequence of postings last year, and it all fell apart somehow . We’ll have another…
Our Winter Garden – Dec 2020
We are, I guess, about 2/3 of the way through the first month of meteorological winter, and so have a…
Just a little higher since …….
I’ve never attempted to grow Hyacinths before. We’ve bought them of course, and enjoyed that wonderful scent, but this year…
It don’t mean a thing …..
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing! I think I’m rediscovering Jazz! I’ve spent a lot…
Different Days
It’s not even proper snow, just wet sleety stuff that produces nothing more than very cold puddles on a day…
An odd kind of failure.
To say that this has been a strange year has become a kind of ultimate and omnipresent cliché. There is…
Our 2020 Garden (1)
The coronavirus thing is making itself felt in many different ways. Some of them for some people are of course…
Aftermath and Prologue. Spring 2020
It was early March. The rain seemed finally to have stopped, a least for a while, and I decided, as…
