Wildlife

I'm sure many of you are like me: I love the birds in my garden, passionately, but I love all the other wildlife as well, and I love doing things to help give all of them a home. Of course, it makes sense to do so, because wildlife isn't independent...

I love growing plants. I'm what is known as a plantaholic. Like millions of gardeners across the country, many of the plants I grow aren't native, either to Britain or to the area of the country I live in. So I grow dahlias from Mexico, Echinacea...

Recently, native English speakers have been adopting Scandinavian ideas to improve their well being. For example: Hygge : a Danish word referring to a feeling of cosiness or contentment . Lagom : a Swedish word meaning ' just the right amount...

Well, it has been some winter, hasn't it? And it looks like it hasn't done with us yet, with another icy blast in the offing. All the more amazing, then, given that my garden looked like this barely ten days ago with powder snow swept in modern...

In the recent hard weather, I've been visited daily by a Mr Blackcap. As you can see, he has taken to eating sunflower hearts from one of the SquirrelBuster birdfeeders, taking his turn among the Greenfinches, House Sparrows and Goldfinches...