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Mistletoe is growing well here at Columbine. We have three good bunches of it in a hawthorn tree in our woodland ...

I am writing this on the 4th of November and the garden is only now turning autumnal ...

The thing I love most about October are the smells that drift in ...

There’s lots to celebrate this month. On the first I celebrated my twenty eighth anniversary of being here ...

Work has begun on building our new brick bridge across the moat - replacing the current causeway ...

Building work often equals disruption, mess and inconvenience. Nothing you can do about it - just keep picturing how wonderful it will be at the end ...

This is the month for roses. Classic roses that adorn our walled kitchen garden are at their peak around the middle of June ...

There cannot be a more jubilant month in the gardener's calendar than May ...

It happens every April - I am bewitched by the simple greenness of everything ...

Apparently “having the builders in” ranks as one of the most stressful events in anyone’s life. But although we are having to adapt to some disruption, we are finding it all most exciting ...