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Your Outdoor Room in Winter - The weather is still fairly balmy, but your outdoor rooms will soon seem less useful than in the warmer times of the year. How can you keep your outdoor room a useful part of your home year round? If possible, have a sheletered space. Both of these examples offer some shelter from the elements, so they'll be warmer even in winter. These "before" p... - 2012/05/20 Blooms - blue... Stokesia & viper's bugloss. Chinese foxglove Swallowtail on butterfly-weed. Wild sweet-potato. Cactus blooms... coreopsis... Peony poppy. The goldfinches are here for the poppy seeds. They made poppy seed collection difficult But they're still kewt... - 2012/05/19 The Sunshine Award - This week I was very surprised to be awarded The Sunshine Award from Jacqui of The French Village Diaries Jacqui and her husband Adrian have lived in a small village in France since 2004 and are avid gardeners, growing much of their own food. They also have ducks, chickens, a rabbit and even a goose, so are really living 'the goo... - 2012/05/18 Dances With Dolphins - There's no way to describe the beauty of dolphins and the way they move. You've just got to see it for yourself. Here's our attempt at capturing a bit of that beauty. --Captain Cat (transcribed by the Can Opener) - 2012/05/18 Engine Excitement - Photo b y scrumblecatamaran F our days out... and an engine gave out*. Mechanical warning beepings sounded that had us all racing round the boat to determine which system was telling us to turn it off before it melted. Those beeps are so imperious and seem to come from every direction at once. Kind of like aircraft carriers... Sure eno... - 2012/05/17 The gardening weather today will be…….not what you expect. - The weather continues to dominate the conversations of country folk, gardeners and it would seem, almost everyone else. Our honey man tells me there will be no spring harvest for him because the Robinia flowers frosted and died. A favourite … Continue reading → - 2012/05/17
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