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I love April. Yes it’s often wet and the weather can be wild and horrible, but everything seems to be full of joy and hope!! This might sound corny, but doesn’t your heart lift when you hear the birds chant, see the shoots coming up in the garden and in the country side? I just…

There is definitely a spring in the step of all the birds – spring is round the corner. Yes, there is snow and ice, but the birds are a lot chirpier than they were and flying off in pairs to find nesting sites. I’ve put up more bird boxes in my garden, one of which…

Happy New Year!!! Well, the garden might be asleep – and you might feel like hibernating too, but is there anything better than to sit in a cosy sitting room poring over seed catalogues? Just imagine all those wonderful vegetables you could grow… Would you like to be inspired to grow vegetables? How about reading…

It’s the final clear up before winter. All the buckets need to go into the shed, all the trowels reclaimed from their border homes. Yes, despite all attempts at order, the borders seem to hold on to some of them for a while. Equally secateurs. I don’t buy expensive ones anymore – is it the…

Autumn is here in all it’s multi-coloured glory. My amelanchier and fothergillas are changing into beautiful autumn tones of yellow, red and orange. The rowan trees are laden with red berries. And the grasses: Seed heads in various shapes and fluffinesses (that word had to be invented), wafting on the breeze. Preferably not too much…

A balmy day, I am tidying up, but not too much – the wildlife needs places to hide in the coming winter. My wooden edging to the flower beds needs replacing, but I am not throwing it away. Hidden under a hedge it’s a wee heaven for hibernating animals and also a home for various…

  We have another few weeks of summer, enjoy it. Because by the end of this month there comes a time when the feel of the garden changes. Suddenly there will be a first smell of autumn. But not to worry, this is the time when your heleniums, grasses and eventually asters come into their…

Plants have settled into their place, jostling with all the other herbaceous perennials. And again I forgot to stake that delphinium, it definately has a kink now, but what the heck, it’s blue is one of the most vibrants of all flowers! But with all that business of spring and early summer – now is…

  Long days, short nights. If it wasn’t for going to work, this is the month to live in the garden. Again you realise that you forgot to move that pink lupin away from the yellow loosestrife. And those astilbes and the rudbeckias are going to flower next to each other again. Do you have…

  Heaven on earth is a warm calm day in the garden in May. Living in the North of Scotland, this time of year gives us long hours to work outside and it’s a time of year where – on a nice day – the heart sings. The birds are so noisy, it’s wonderful, whilst…