Arbuthnot's Blog archive

I've been away from GOY nearly all summer.....

It's been a time of injury, first knee, then back, all thanks to hefting too much...

No snowdrops this year

Because of the ground disturbance and the digging up and replanting for the new shed...

Re-designing

My OH is re-designing our small back garden as I want a circular lawn. He decided...

Roses attacked

After a prolonged period of heavy rain yesterday I went outside for a look-see. Two...

Lost roosting places

The house at the end of my short garden has new owners who moved in a month or so...

Not a good year for my clems

One or two of my clems have done ok but the others are not doing well at all. Three...

Unstructured border

When I read the post from Tonyl about his narrow borders and saw his photo I did...

Why has everything grown so large?

On one border (east facing) so many normally lowish plants have grown quite massive....

Only a short blog

I've just been looking at the honeysuckle on the back, north facing fence. It's laden...

Blowsy

My garden is beginning to look blowsy as everything is growing much taller and bushier...

Two years later

When we came here two years ago the garden had barely been touched. It was obviously...

More about my vandalised Polychroma

Whilst cooking last evening I saw a lot of sparrow (or dunnock) activity so watched...