• Bottoms up!
    Last year, my new Starling nestbox was christened by Great Tits, who successfully raised a brood in what must have seemed to them a palatial mansion. This year, it was taken over by those-for-which...
  • Bottoms up!
    My 'Square Meadow' is a vastly over-inflated name for a little experiment in which I have been seeing how feasible it is to convert a bog-standard piece of lawn turf with not a single other plant in it...
  • New visitor at the bottom of the garden
    This rather beautiful chap was at the bottom of my sister's garden, which backs on to woodland. I think it is a cock pheasant
  • Bottoms up for crocuses!
    I spent a gorgeous morning last weekend at the National Trust's Nymans Gardens near Crawley. The sky was clear, the sun actually had heat in it, and the bees were busy. One of the plants they were...
  • butterflies
    i saw my first tortoise shell butterflie this morning in my back garden lovely site to see and my first bumble bee i built a new pond just for wild life i have already got a pond for fish but mr and...