December/January in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas. December sees the shortest day of the year. Winter officially begins on the 21st December. We can experience some biting cold winds though sometimes, colder weather can bring drier and calmer conditions too. Frost is our biggest concern this month and now, all deciduous plants are [...]
November in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas. “If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us.” Sir David Attenborough ‘Our forests and seagrass habitats are important carbon sinks for our planet and if they are not protected, our world will suffer. That’s why we’re working to restore their habitats so [...]
October in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas. Hello Everybody and Wishing Each One Of Us, Happy Autumnal Days. “If a year was tucked inside the face of a clock, then Autumn would be the magic hour”. Victoria Erickson. Autumn is officially here in all its golden glory. Our gardens and courtyards [...]
March in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas. In some ways, as our world seems to have shrunken under lockdown, our perspective and imaginations have been expanded and changed. It’s the small, sometimes miraculous things in life, the basic things that make us happy. This past 2020, our gardens have proven to become havens, [...]
February in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas Each day, we are experiencing a few more precious minutes of daylight. After a few months of dormancy, towards the end of February, temperatures are slowly rising, light levels increasing and our dawn chorus is increasing in volume. All may seem quiet in the garden and sometimes, looking out [...]
December/January in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas. Day by day, Christmas is getting closer, we’ll soon be approaching the depths of winter and Christmas is a turning point. We all know, living with this virus, we are ‘see-sawing’ and the well documented benefits of gardening to our mental health and physical wellbeing are more important now than ever.
November in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas. Our evenings really do draw in over the first two weeks of November and the last of our hardy late summer flowering plants fade away. We can still occasionally see some beautiful clear blue mornings, some wonderful foggy evenings and then, the most picturesque scenes of frosty landscapes. [...]
October in our Gardens by Philippa Thomas In these exceptionally tricky times when it can be difficult to know what the right thing to do is, we are now cautiously optimistic. Our gardens are keeping us physically active and mentally at rest. October can be our gateway month, our weeks are presently filled with bitter [...]
AUGUST IN OUR GARDENS by Philippa Thomas We’re not in the same boat but we’re in the same storm. At this stage, some of us are more aware of the fragility, the precious nature of life and then, the precious nature of Nature, itself. Time can be elastic and then, it can be the opposite.....We [...]
JULY IN OUR GARDENS by Philippa Thomas. We have all had to adapt to the strange times that we are currently living in. . . Isn’t it like a war with an invisible enemy . . . Despite All This, July brings long warm days that continue late into the evening. It is such a [...]