I don’t think that I was ever really convinced that the orchard would be our last project and nor will regular readers who are now familiar with the Head Gardeners modus operandus. So when the new project was announced at Christmas I didn’t know whether to have hysterics or give him a big hug, particularly […]
Croft Gardener
Time for Tea
There is nothing more glorious than June – roses, cricket, lawn tennis, the evening glass of chilled white wine on the terrace……….. You can smell and taste the nostalgia, the idyll only disturbed by the sound of hay fever snuffling and sneezing, and a summer storm! Oh well it must be time for tea. The […]
Wordless Wednesday – Gardeners Day on the Beach
The Machair in Flower – May
I know that the machair is about to burst into flower when the grass becomes speckled with the small white flowers of our common daisy (Bellis perennis). As the days pass the grassland slowly turns into a sea of waving golden heads of meadow buttercups (Ranunculus acris). Tall and elegant they sway in the breeze […]
In a Vase on Tuesday
The first of the roses in my In a Vase on Monday has opened and the perfume is enough to bring out the sun on a grey Hebridean morning. This is for Annette who gardens in Aberdeen and everyone who enjoys Cathy’s In a vase on Monday meme.