Search - Articles

Until last weekend, we had two hens. And while they're beautiful and friendly, they're very elderly ladies and only lay an egg once in a blue moon. So last weekend we made a unanimous decision to buy more, and off we went in search of some happy

still when variegated, but I have to admit it looks rather smart where it stands in a sheltered spot by the back door. The cyclamen are in pots close to the house, my favourite is a large blue glazed pot crammed with three red cyclamen, a stately pink

.Now, with the increasingly warm weather, the aphids are happily multiplying on just about any fresh, soft growth that they can find. In a bid to thwart them I’ve tried the trick of hanging bird feeders on shrubs. The blue tits form an orderly queue for the feeder (they

know they have to eat, but one particular sparrowhawk has taken to using our garden it as its own five-star restaurant. Just about every day I witness it take at least two of my beloved sparrows, or the blue tits or just about any of the smaller

I've always been fascinated by algae. These simple organisms take so many forms. Some are accurate indicators of water pollution, and some, like the blue-green alga spirulina, are a brilliant source of vitamin B12. But right now they've gone too far