Photo taken July 2012 during a trip to Beth Chatto gardens. A walk through the dry garden in summer.

Garden Birdwatch 2013 Are you joining in?? The RSPB.org.uk is again running the “Big Garden Birdwatch” in the UK. It’s all about the numbers and species of birds that come to visit your home garden or local free space at any one time. It’s also great way to get the younger members of ther family… Read more →

Left out in the cold It has certainly been cold here in this corner of Essex, temperatures around 0C and dropping quite dramatically some nights, and now we have had some snow. We never managed a white Christmas here, the weather was quite mild, but now it feels like we are having a real winter.… Read more →