Ten Things To Do In The Garden in January
Reading time 15 minutes
January is a unique month in the year when plants, on the whole, demand very little from gardeners. House plants are an exception, but […]
birds
Advent Thought for the Day: 2
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December 2nd: Cardinals I have never seen a real cardinal bird, and yet they follow me wherever I go. On my buying trips in […]
Birthday Bombki
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I celebrated The Frustrated Gardener’s second birthday yesterday in one of the farthest corners of Poland, near the city of Wroclaw. The countryside in […]
Bursting Forth on Boxing Day
Reading time 7 minutes
This Christmas our friends Travis and Beth at Trevoole sent us a copy of ‘Dear Friend and Gardener’, a collection of correspondence between distinguished […]
A Tropical Christmas
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Just one more flight and I’ll be home for Christmas. Work won’t be over for a while, but in the meantime this unusual, tropical-inspired […]
Welcoming Back the Birds
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Over the summer, we removed most of our bird feeders for cleaning and to reduce the amount of spilled seed on the terrace. I […]
Daily Flower Candy: Fuller’s Teasel
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Last weekend went by like a whirlwind – so much to catch up on whilst September flew away on the breeze. It was good […]
Charley Harper’s Backyard Birds
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Charley Harper was a genius of a graphic artist. His cheerful, highly-stylised wildlife prints always make me smile inside. So I was very happy […]
Pilfering Parakeets
Reading time 4 minutes
No, I have not been gallivanting around the world again. This “glamorous oriental stranger”, to employ a description used by the great David Attenborough, […]