Soggy, soggy, soggy
The months are ticking by and we still haven't started any planting at the allotment. We've managed the occasional trip to the plot but our activities have been confined to…
Managed a little gardening
Although the weather is conspiring against us, as Martyn described in his post, we did manage some gardening last week. It may not seem very spring-like to us but the…
Still waiting for spring
So far March has been a disappointing month weather wise. It started off cold before turning cold and snowy. The last week has been on the wet side. Temperatures for…
Always worth a try
We have two camellias in our garden - a red one and a pink flowered one. The red one always flowers first. If left to their own devices the camellias…
Someone’s busy
We were having breakfast on Saturday morning when our attention was drawn to a dead tree fern stump. The day before I had cut back all our ferns including those…
A cold and snowy start to March
February brought an end to meteorological winter but March has started on a cold note. It certainly has been a very cold start to March. Most news bulletins about the…
A touch of snow
We thought that the snow that was falling on other parts of the country was going to miss us but on Friday we awoke to a very wintry scene. Fortunately,…
Meteorological spring arrives – really!
February brought an end to meteorological winter but March has started on a cold note. February itself was a record breaker. It was the mildest February of the last 14…
It was going so well
I finished tidying the All Gold autumn raspberries.Some of the plants have started to shoot but the redness on some of the young leaves is an indication that they are…