Garden Memories
No doubt, you have been keeping notes of your garden this year – what you have sown, grown, planted and transplanted, be it flowers or vegetables, herbs, shrubs or fruit.…
May Miscellany
Sunshine at last here in the north Cotswolds (second day running!) and, according to the Met Office weather chart, it’s pretty much stable over the whole of England and Wales.…
Garden Diaries, Journals & Jotters
At last I have been able to work in the garden; the soil is fit, the weeds have not yet overtaken me, and yet there is so much to reclaim…
Five reasons for staying indoors!
With Easter approaching you may be itching to get out in the garden with all sorts of tasks already on your ‘to do’ list. As I write, the forecast doesn’t…
Arrival of the snow
Hard on my decision to continue reclaiming the various mini-gardens within our acre of ground (as described in my ‘Plans & Dreams’ post of 29th December) comes the snow. Not…
Garden Journaling – jump-start
In the Dobies of Devon e-newsletter published last week, I referred to starting a garden- or nature- diary during the school holidays. You can’t say much in one paragraph, though…
Gardens on the move
My plan to blog live from Ireland was a failure as such WiFi connections as I was able to access were so slow and intermittent that posting anything more than…
Illustrated Garden Journals
One is full of good intentions at the start of a new year; there is almost an inevitability about making resolutions. So often no more than ‘must do better’ at…
Mixed Medley for a Dark Evening
Rain is lashing the windows and it’s blowing half a gale – the first really wintry day we’ve had here in our part of the Cotswolds, though it’s still incredible…
Books for Enthusiastic DIY Gardeners
We plan our Dobies newsletter and blog topics three months in advance – something we will be changing for October to December, because what we intend to write about frequently…