Gardening

The stars of the season are that well known favourite Acer palmatum or Japanese maple.

I love early spring in my garden, there’s a very welcome increase in daylight hours and that uniquely exciting fresh green smell in the air.

During the darkest weeks of the year daylight hours are precious and sun filled ones spent outdoors are even more so.

Small but positive ways to make a difference to the bees, enriching our own lives, too.

We can learn so much from a garden about its history, geography and geology… it’s all shown in the attention to detail.

Spring is joyfully hurtling towards summer and everything in my garden that flowers, creeps, crawls or flies is at its busiest as every plant and animal focuses on producing the next generation.