We are told water is the most effective way to attract wildlife into your garden. Like many others I have been creating a new wildlife pond.
Continue reading “Creating a Wildlife Pond”Creating a Wildlife Pond
Category: In the Garden
The Scented Summer Garden
Scent as well as colour is one of the essential elements of a summer garden. Its mysterious power affects mood and brings back memories as fragrance wafts, sometimes unexpectedly, catching us delightfully by surprise and reminding us of happy days.
Continue reading “The Scented Summer Garden”Sissinghurst Garden – where dreams are made
Sissinghurst ‘was Sleeping Beauty’s Garden: but a garden crying out for rescue’ (Sarah Raven). This unforgettable garden, with its romantic Elizabethan mood, is full of garden dreams in waiting. This is Kent, the ‘Garden of England’.
Continue reading “Sissinghurst Garden – where dreams are made”March – in the Spring Garden
In the March Garden the first few bars of the opening movement of Spring warm our winter-locked-up lives with promise. Earth is waking from winter rest – the thawing of frozen hopes bringing a foretaste of better things. Dreams have kept us going when times have been rough, now they are turning into reality.
Continue reading “March – in the Spring Garden”