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Hebrides Islands on the Edge

Published on: May 3, 2013November 27, 2022 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Year Natural Scotland 9 Comments
Hebrides islands on the edge

This is wildlife photography at its very best. Nigel Pope and his team have done a great job and they were one of the best film crews we’ve welcomed to the islands. I prattled incessantly about the stunning Hebridean landscapes and our world class wildlife so now you can see for yourselves. My words and

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Wordless Wednesday – Is it Spring yet?

Published on: May 1, 2013November 26, 2022 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life, Plants, Wordless Wednesday, Year Natural Scotland 8 Comments
Beech Stornoway

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Spinach and the Popeye Myth

Published on: April 20, 2013December 2, 2022 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Gardening, Recipes, Vegetables 9 Comments
Popeye

Spinach is a great leafy vegetable and one of our staples in the early spring and winter. I grow two varieties of baby leaf spinach, Ottawa and Amazon, both suited to early and late sowing and producing an abundance of leaves either for salads or cooking. I sow my first batch in the polytunnel in

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Flora’s Revenge

Published on: April 12, 2013November 27, 2022 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life 7 Comments
Phaeton

If you go around implying that someone’s daughter is a flirtatious flibbertigibet it is reasonably predictable that her father won’t be too impressed. Now if dad happens to be Zeus you can probably expect the odd thunderbolt and the wrath of the whole pantheon of gods. I knew I was in trouble when the ravens

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Northern Spring

Published on: April 1, 2013November 26, 2022 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life 11 Comments

If the wheel of the celestial seasons turns on the axis of a pomegranate* it is not too surprising that spring is as contrary and unpredictable as any daughter of Eve. In the north she arrives as a thawing ice maiden suffusing the dark skies with a soft opalescent light as she is release from

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