Everything comes…
Last year we had a catastrophe on the wisteria front. A late, harsh frost killed more than a hundred flower buds, just as they were elongating ready to bloom. Instead of nearly two hundred blossoms we had twe...
Tulips Galore
I have been impatiently waiting for the tulip season to start ever since we visited Attingham Hall last May Day. Their tulips were stunning.
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ne thing I learned - and managed to persuade my husband - was tha...
Tadpole Rescue!
We visited Mum over Easter and as we were discussing which plant nurseries to visit, she announced "then we can rescue the tadpoles".
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huge cloud of frogspawn had been laid in a large puddle in the nearby wo...
Kind of Blue
I recently overheard someone say to a friend "thank you for those blueberry plants: we had more than we could eat".
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nd I couldn't stop thinking I wanted more blueberries than I could eat. I'd dismissed the...
Pickled Eggs
Once again we have eggs coming out of our ears. Our ladies are regularly laying four a day which soon adds up!
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y Lovely Husband and I are also on a diet so our usual fall-back position of Victoria Sponge a...