Nymans

Nymans Gardens – very beautiful in late March with spring blossom This National Trust Garden can get very busy when it looks its most beautiful, about now. Visit early – there is only a small car park. It does have wheelchairs to borrow and rugs and paths are reasonably good. Look out for […]

Wild Primrose

Sheep playing Possum

Early morning on the South Downs, not really sure what the two sheep in the middle are up to

Beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze

Besides the path

Celandine comes from the Latin chelidonia, meaning swallow – it was said that the flowers bloomed when the swallows returne and Wordsworth was very fond of them

Dew

When to prune Hibiscus

When to prune Hibiscus “Hibiscus plants thrive on attention. Pruning Hibiscus is a great way to give these plants just what they need. Pruning helps stimulate budding on new shoots. It also rejuvenates the plants after their long winter nap” Nikki Phipps… more

Blue Downs

Breakfast on the farm

Farm stayed with my family last spring, near Amsterdam. We arrived late and took some time to find the farm on the polders. The farmer’s wife showed us in the dark to where we were staying in a converted barn and on the way there we passed the chicken roosting on a low branch of […]

Sunrise Tree – m.joy

Bluebell visitor

Just passing by

Longer days and more outside, funny how thou we’ve had a mild wet winter, outside looks likes its waking up from deep sleep. Trying to grow more bedding plants and herbs than usual because hoping might be able to sell them at markets. So we’ve borrowed some metal hoops and buying some plastic to make […]

It must be Spring Pinny

Mossy tree and Bluebells

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Snow Heart

the most popular legend about snowdrops is that when Adam and Eve were expelled from Garden of Eden, it snowed and snowed and Eve sat weeping and an angel wanted to comfort Eve and held out their hand and caught a snowflake and breathed on it and it fell to earth as the first snowdrop […]