Gardening with Nature on the Edge of the Atlantic

Tag: Scots pine

  • Sometimes I Just Play

    The bad winter prevented me from doing many of the routine and necessary tasks in the garden. However, I was able to prune some willow shrubs and took the opportunity to play with the willow stems weaving some into a small fence. The colours of the branches that I used are striking. The orange-stemmed Salix…

  • The First Anomolies of 2025

    I found it hard to believe it when I saw these fuchsia blossoms on a plant that is growing in a secluded corner of the garden. Well actually it grows in my neighbour’s garden but blossoms in mine. The plant has just two leaves – so how on earth have these managed to thrive without…