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Squirrels

By Adam Pasco on 05/11/2007 11:03:02

What's up with the squirrels in my garden? Why can't they stick to the peanut feeders and keep off my lawn! For the past few weeks they've been relentlessly digging holes here, there, everywhere in my lawn.I think they're burying walnuts collected


Dogs in the garden

By Adam Pasco on 22/06/2009 14:33:37

Do dogs and gardening mix? I'd have to say yes, despite the state of my lawn! Magic, our miniature poodle, is a great companion, offering the unconditional love only dogs can give. She's most often observed at this time of year belly-up on the lawn


Bonsai trees

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 16/06/2008 14:12:00

) was of a Chinese juniper 1.5m tall and 3.5m wide growing in a small, overcrowded garden. Over a period of years it was dug up, pruned and replanted until it fitted into a pot. The whole process took about a quarter of a century and is far from over.The art


Starlings

By Adam Pasco on 10/11/2008 16:33:56

Every few days I just happen to look outside at the very moment a large flock (or should that be 'swarm'?) of starlings descends on my lawn. They really are quite a sight.Unlike bluetits or blackbirds, which you might see in twos or threes


Moles and molehills

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 25/08/2009 16:31:35

I don't believe it. I am incandescent with spluttering indignation. For the first time ever a molehill has appeared on my lawn.We've lived here for about 15 years. Before that the garden was a concrete farmyard, so this particular mole


Woodpigeons

By Richard Jones on 17/12/2008 09:04:02

The woodpigeons are back. Not that they had gone away, just that I’ve noticed them a lot over the last week. I love the way they strut their plump bodies about on the lawn, peering intently into the wet grass as if looking for something they lost


Artificial grass

By Kate Bradbury on 13/08/2010 10:43:21

grow for the sole purpose of attracting the speckled wood, which breeds in long grass.When the news broke that sales of artificial grass are soaring, it struck me that a fake lawn might have been a better option for my small patch (roughly 4m²). I


Astrantia and alstroemeria

By Adam Pasco on 23/06/2008 14:17:00

Everyone is looking for plants that offer great garden performance, and I think I've hit the jackpot with astrantia. I must have planted Astrantia major 'Roma' at the bottom of my lawn about eight years ago, and to be honest haven't given it any


Grey mould

By Pippa Greenwood on 08/10/2010 15:28:05

Autumn has definitely arrived in my hill-top garden. The lawn is soaked in dew each morning and suddenly many of my crops have given up the ghost. But oddly enough, the place that I've noticed the seasonal shift the most is in my greenhouse


Leaf fall

By Adam Pasco on 26/11/2007 10:12:02

A sharp cold spell followed by wet weather has left my lawn carpeted with leaves. At least they've all fallen at once this year, rather than dropping slowly over many weeks. This way I can collect them in one go, and get the job done, rather than


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