We’ve had to put in a noise complaint with Mother Nature ~ due to the volume of chirping coming from newly fledged and baby birds. The worst culprits are a band of delightfully fat and fluffy coal tits as they bounce around the garden looking for food, sometimes joined by a group of long tailed[…]Read more…
We are establishing a “first aid station” for bees offering a variety of upright and creeping thymes. The idea for this followed a visit to a herb farm which clearly showed the popularity of this particular herb with different kinds of bees. There is some evidence that foraging from thyme flowers helps to support bees’[…]Read more…
Last Thursday morning, the 23rd, I met Penny, one of our gardeners, in the Garden and asked if she needed help. ‘You could do some weeding’, she suggested, so I set to, uprooting yellow poppies in the flower beds that flank the stone path leading to the Well, trimming them as I went and adding[…]Read more…
