Monthly Archives: February 2016

This post was supposed to be a continuation of my last one; ‘Why do We Garden?‘, but I can’t let Carol‘s February’s Bloom Day go by without joining in the celebration. Despite the awful winds and rain we have had … Continue reading →

How strange that so many of us are compelled to do something that can be so tedious, that is such hard, dirty and repetitive work. The endless battle with persistent weeds that we know is doomed to failure. The weeds … Continue reading →

          OK, here we go again. I try to resist it each year, but by the end of January I succumb to white fever. But as much as I love plants and at the moment snowdrops, readers of … Continue reading →