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Fairy Rings

My son's girlfriend asked me last night 'Why has Jim next door got a pile of stones...

Heptacodium Miconioides (Seven Son Tree)

I chose a shrub/small tree for my garden last year, which seemed full of promise....

Some things for the birds.....

I don't know about you but over the years I seem to have collected numerous bird...

First snow flurry

I have one of my nieces staying for the weekend-she has been up in the neighbouring...

Wrapping up for winter

Those of you will have noticed that I sometimes mention my mother and her penchant...

Hoverfly

Very few bees about in the garden now-in fact, its been at least 1 week since I last...

It's been a day of luck and chance!!

Upon checking my lotto ticket earlier today, I found I had matched 4 numbers. I...

Flowering in September

This is just a little blog of what is flowering/still flowering midway through September....

A wee job for a Sunday morning

I have an expanse of gravel directly outside my back kitchen door. The gravel was...

September already!

It's September already, you can see that autumn is beginning to set in. I was so...

My garden at the start of August

August has pretty much began the same way June and July did...wet! It's been quite...

Wee ginger bumble bee

In my opinion, yesterday, Friday 20th July has been the best 'summer' day by far....