It’s the weekend, it’s a beautifully clear and sunny day and I’m not going outside. Despite the clear skies and the strong sunshine, it still feels very cold. The garden …

A serious problem for some gardens is the risk of the weight of snow bringing down tree limbs or sections of large plants, especially evergreen plants where there are leaves …

It looks like there’s no let-up to the cold just yet. A continental high that is refusing to shift is sending freezing air our way. The snow isn’t really thawing …

A few posts back I’d taken a picture of a daffodil that was just about to open and I wrote about the anticipation of seeing that first large, vivid flower …

It’s that time of the year when the days are getting imperceptibly longer and the sun sets towards the end of the working day, instead of the middle of the …

I really, really hate it when the weekend weather is wet, cold and miserable and I can’t go outside and do something useful in the garden. Then, to rub salt …

Over the weekend we had a rather cold night that led to a very frosty morning. While the sun was shining I took a couple of photos of some of …

A few days ago we received the first snow fall of the winter season (this one that has just started). It was a brief flurry that came down very quickly, …