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Tag: Nigella

Wordless Wednesday

June 7, 20172 Comments

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Started botanical drawings and watercolours a few months ago. Absolutely loving it!! 😊

Wordless Wednesday

June 22, 2016July 11, 20164 Comments

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Another Nigella – this week it’s Nigella papillosa ‘African Bride’

Wordless Wednesday

June 15, 2016July 11, 2016Leave a comment

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Such intricacies on this delicate Nigella

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Lovely to open my January copy of Gardeners' World Magazine and see the first of my nature series, starting with making fat cakes to attract birds to the garden. Not long now until the Big Garden Birdwatch...

Misty over the reedbeds this morning & the song thrushes giving it some welly.

Nightfall over the reedbeds, rejoicing in a bit of solitary time, just the crows keeping me company & an alder watching my back. Moonlight pooling on the boardwalk as I set off home.

My Guardian Country Diary today explores the alder carr - a place that is dear to me & where I go for restoration, creativity & simply to breathe. (link in bio)

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Mellow, luxurious Dahlia Cafe au Lait this evening.

Fiery moon stairway to heaven across the bay.

Rainbow beans for tea.

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Nature Notes

Nature Notes February 21, 2021
Freeze-Thaw In their deeply frozen state, the hill, fields and woods are a blanched, pale, brownish beige. Just before sunset, I spring two woodcock up from beside me. They rock away like dumpy wooden arks, their long, compass needle bills never wavering from the earth they quickly return to. Above me, the peregrine falcon flies … Continue reading Nature Not […]
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We are delighted to be able to share contributions from the Land Lines Blog community in this special post – which brings together our readers and contributors’ favourite nature writing texts that they encountered in 2020. A profoundly difficult year for many, 2020 has offered some of us a chance to reflect on what natureContinue reading "Land Lines Blo […]
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Doomscrolling, or No News is Good News March 1, 2021
Doomscrolling does no one any good. No news is good news!
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Gardens, Weeds and Words

Day 61: spurge alien March 2, 2021
There’s a week or so before the spurge flowers, when it hunches over against the bitter March winds that billow through the garden, long leaves overlapped like armour plates, protectively shielding the flowering bracts…
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Successes and failures August 4, 2020
When I first started my blog I set out with the intention of showing my gardening exploits GOOD or BAD, and not shying away from admitting any failures. So, with that in mind, I admit a failure: this year my onions have been very poor.When I planted out 20 multi-sown clumps of onion seedlings on 16th March, I had high hopes, because I used this technique wit […]
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