This summer we have had some particularly warm and calm days. On afternoons when it was too hot to garden, seeking just a zephyr of a breeze, I spent my time exploring the pools and rocky shore of the headland. I can devote hours to watching the movement of the seaweeds in the clear water […]
Croft Gardener
Wordless Wednesday – Oolites
Chasing rainbows
August may seem rather early in the gardening year to be thinking about the planting plan for next summer, but this far north I can see autumn over the garden wall. The glory of our island cottage garden is short: it is slow to start, building up to an explosion of colour and then a […]
Wordless Wednesday – Pineapple Lilies
Eucomis – Pineapple Lilies
Their Name Liveth For Everymore
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme commemorates the 72,195 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave Robert Mullin (1879-1916) 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters.Killed in action on the Somme, commemorated at Thiepval. Frederick Morley (1890-1916) 4th Battalion Sherwood […]