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Derek – Sunday 10th July 2022
The pond is low, a foot lower than it was in spring. The hot, dry weather is drying it out rapidly. The underwater plants, hornwort and elodea, are crowding the pond, their…
10th July 2022 -
Derek – Sunday 26th June 2022
These are busy summer days, making up for the listless covid days of the last couple of years. The Garden organised the Forest Gate garden trail last weekend, when 18 gardens around…
26th June 2022 -
Derek – Friday 27th May 2022
The elder (Sambucus nigra) is in bloom, a white umbrella of tiny flowers, hundreds on our tree. Last week in the countryside I saw many of them in bloom in the hedgerows.…
27th May 2022 -
Derek – Friday 20th May 2022
I water the herbs on the sleepers and in the square raised bed, though we have had a fair bit of rain this week and our tubs are filling. But one mustn’t…
20th May 2022 -
Derek – Friday 13th May 2022
The mystery chewers? Thursday last week, I came into the garden and found four leaflets we had put up had been attacked, up to a third of each chewed away. I replaced…
13th May 2022 -
Derek – Friday 29th April 2022
We had a bumper crowd for our Spring Celebration on Saturday, over 200 attendees eager to be out and meeting again after a depressing couple of years. We had music from The…
29th April 2022 -
Derek – Friday 15th April 2022
Both cherry trees are in bloom, the large pink blossoms merging with the white of the smaller tree. Theirs will be a brief show, but let’s enjoy them on these sunny Easter…
15th April 2022 -
Derek – Friday 8th April 2022
This weather is typical of April, see-saw temperatures, chilly followed by warmth and back to chilly. ‘Don’t shed a clout till May is out,’ goes the old saw. It is not referring…
8th April 2022 -
Derek – Friday 25th March 2022
We’ve had some very warm days for the time of year, touching 20 degrees. There’s lots of wriggling in the frog spawn. Heat accelerates hatching time, as the various chemical reactions are…
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Derek – Friday 18th March 2022
Not only has our pond a mass of frog spawn, but we have had adult frogs too. Not surprising as you can’t get the former without the latter. But we don’t usually…
18th March 2022