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Tag: Old Man’s Beard

Wordless Wednesday

November 9, 20162 Comments

Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) in front of a blanket of old man’s beard (Clematis vitalba)

Wordless Wednesday

September 7, 20162 Comments

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Wild Clematis seedhead – Clematis vitalba

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Hi, thanks for visiting the blog. I’m Nic – a garden and nature writer based in Hertfordshire. I’m also a peat-free gardener, keen birdwatcher, inveterate bookworm and mum to two budding growers. Join me as I follow my crops from plot to plate, explore new plants and share the wonder and beauty of the nature world…

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Holloway run, out and about with the kids and first flock of redwings on the Cotoneaster lacteus. Chilly but fun day before real life begins again next week.

Impressed with the new green wall that I spotted on the way to work in Hammersmith this morning. Hope it is well maintained so the heucheras, sarcococca, ferns and grasses continue to thrive.

New Year's chocolate log, complete with bracket fungi and lichen. Happy New Year everyone!

Old man of the woods watching me as I walked and worked in the alder carr this afternoon.

Preparation for Christmas Chilean guava trifle is underway... 🎄

Another yuletide job off the list ✅

I called my blog 'Dogwooddays' in celebration of those magical winter moments when fiery cornus stems set the borders alight. The epitome of light in the darkness, its hard wood possibly led to both Latin and common names: 'cornus' from Latin for horn, as its wood is as hard as horn, and dogwood from dagwood/dagtree - the hard wood used for daggers or butchers' skewers, from 'dag' - to pierce or stab.

So chuffed to have the opportunity to write about the place of gardens in the wider & wilder landscape in December's RHS The Garden magazine. Writing about an issue that means so much to me has made my year!

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Black Bryony and the Jaggy Creel. Dawn, and a mist rises from the lake by the big house, and a small cloud inversion hovers over the source of the River Enborne. It lifts and mingles with a plume of smoke from the biomass wood boiler, and all is caught in the most ethereal, golden light … Continue reading Nature Notes
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‘A Year in Kingcombe’ by Anita Roy October 30, 2019
Today’s guest blog comes from one of the finest new voices on the British nature writing scene, Anita Roy, with extracts from her wonderful account of a calendar year at Kingcombe in Dorset. First published month by month in Little Toller’s online nature journal The Clearing , the diary quickly gained a devoted following. It is now […]
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I’ve been stuck in bed with the lurgy for several days, so getting back out into the garden this weekend has been a tonic. The long running saga of the Elusive Wheelbarrow Inner Tube Puncture having now been drawn to a satisfying resolution…
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Shutting up shop for Winter October 12, 2019
I haven't posted anything here for ages, so you probably guessed this: I'm shutting up my blog for the Winter.My garden looks bedraggled and messy at present, and there is very little for me to write about. Who wants to see photos of my last few tomatoes, still holding out against the encroaching Blight?My remaining cucumber plants are still produc […]
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