Category: Gardening

Reasons to be cheerful

Ugh.  It’s been a rather grim, wet week.  I haven’t seen the sunshine much at all except for the odd brief flash of it here in Winwick and on other people’s blog photos which...

Whatever the weather

It seemed as if Winter was arriving all of a sudden at the beginning of the week; after a cold and blustery weekend we woke to frost on Monday morning and the lowest temperatures...

Autumnal week

It’s certainly been starting to feel a lot more like Autumn this week, although the temperature is still oddly mild for the time of year. The week began brilliantly with a knit n natter...

Hot hot hot

There’s no pleasing us British sometimes, especially when it comes to the weather. First, it’s too cold.  Our winters are too long, too wet or too mild.  Our springs are too breezy, too chilly...

Five on Friday – Friday roundup

One of the things about being in the habit of blogging is that you take photographs a lot of the time.  Sometimes I will take a picture because I specifically want to remember something,...

Catching up

Every year, without fail, there comes a time in my garden when things are growing faster than I can keep up with them. Despite all my good intentions of staying one step ahead this...