Arbuthnot's Blog archive

A little bit more energetic

After months of horrid weather and the usual SAD plus several ongoing health problems...

Summer is fading, part 2

Two other photos. One is Forever Friends on the Amelanchier. The other is the pink...

Summer is fading

My small garden has been so colourful this year though looking quite congested. Yesterday...

Being ruthless

When we moved here nearly 8 years ago we brought a potted dwarf Cox apple tree and...

Japanese anemones

After reading the question posed by Cazoo I went out and dug my JA out. I hadn’t...

Lockdown

6So, for most people, lockdown will soon be a thing of the past. Not so those of...

Backs and their problems

I haven't been on GOY for a while. I'm having chronic back problems which are aggravated...

From one problem to the next

In the five and half years we’ve lived here we seem to lurch from one problem to...

Confused

The plants in my garden seem to be confused by the strange weather variations we're...

Spring garden

The garden is coming alive with plenty of colour. The star of the show at the moment...

Too much going on

What with the weather and pressing (and extremely frustrating) things happening on...

Such grey days!

I’ve been trying to hibernate this winter as we’ve had so much gloom and damp with...