We’ve been refurbishing a cottage with a garden that was once obviously the owner’s pride and joy but has been abandoned for the last few years. We haven’t really attacked the garden yet but there are some beautiful old espaliered fruit trees and other bits… I’m thinking maybe a bit of a wild area with grasses so thank you for the suggestions!
I moved into a garden that was basically gravel two years ago. With such a blank canvas it’s given me a chance to think about permaculture, edible gardens and wildlife so almost everything I plant is intended to feed me or wildlife or, of course, both. Yesterday I added a dustbin lid pond which looks a little stark now but in Spring I will add some marginals and grasses. Thank you for the grass suggestions.
I love British robins. So different from ours in the U.S. Little balls of sweetness with a big voice. I always take pictures of them, when I visit my daughter and her family in Oxfordshire.💖
I think in his book The Life of a Robin the writer Robin Lack tells about Dorothy Wordsworth and her robin at Dove Cottage. She fed him regularly but when she herself was ill in bed, with the sash window wide open to let in the curing fresh air, the robin brought some worms and put them on her pillow.
lovely......your robins are micro!....those in the dying empire/US are jumbo!......bird feeders got pulled down by bears/yes, seriously....the forests of Southern Oregon....so the birds have moved into what remains of the garden/it's too wet to tidy........keep posting! you are a breath of fresh air in a sea of stagnant news crises..........
We’ve been refurbishing a cottage with a garden that was once obviously the owner’s pride and joy but has been abandoned for the last few years. We haven’t really attacked the garden yet but there are some beautiful old espaliered fruit trees and other bits… I’m thinking maybe a bit of a wild area with grasses so thank you for the suggestions!
I moved into a garden that was basically gravel two years ago. With such a blank canvas it’s given me a chance to think about permaculture, edible gardens and wildlife so almost everything I plant is intended to feed me or wildlife or, of course, both. Yesterday I added a dustbin lid pond which looks a little stark now but in Spring I will add some marginals and grasses. Thank you for the grass suggestions.
I love British robins. So different from ours in the U.S. Little balls of sweetness with a big voice. I always take pictures of them, when I visit my daughter and her family in Oxfordshire.💖
I think in his book The Life of a Robin the writer Robin Lack tells about Dorothy Wordsworth and her robin at Dove Cottage. She fed him regularly but when she herself was ill in bed, with the sash window wide open to let in the curing fresh air, the robin brought some worms and put them on her pillow.
lovely......your robins are micro!....those in the dying empire/US are jumbo!......bird feeders got pulled down by bears/yes, seriously....the forests of Southern Oregon....so the birds have moved into what remains of the garden/it's too wet to tidy........keep posting! you are a breath of fresh air in a sea of stagnant news crises..........