The Blackbirds that arrived to strip my pyracantha a few weeks ago are still around – I’m making it worth their while with offerings of apples and sultanas. It seems that Blackbirds LOVE apples, especially the soft wrinkley ones from the bottom of the fruit pile. I’ve been cutting them in half and leaving them […]
This morning I was rewarded for taking the kettle out to the frozen bird bath when I looked up not much later to see a wren having a drink and a splash. I think that’s the first time I’ve seen a wren bathe! The RSPB have quite a few suggestions for keeping the bird bath […]
This week I’ve been watching a team of 4 or 5 blackbirds stripping a heavily laden pyracanther hedge of its crop of bright orange berries. After a few days all that’s left is bare stalks and rotten ones! To be fair the wood pidgeons cleared the more accessible branches back in September, but now the […]
Gardening may be seen elsewhere as an activity for pensioners, with many mainland Europeans choosing apartment lifestyles over houses with gardens. But not in Britain!! Andrea Wulf, author of ‘The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession‘ (2008), describes her amazement on moving from Hamburg to London in the mid ’90s and […]