An eventful autumn at Oaklands

Onions, jam and a very naughty parrot

The garden in full flower at the summer solstice

Early spring and the trees are tentative.

A winter garden in rural Herefordshire, and change is afoot.

The winter garden - jobs to do, and as always, the weather.

Moving into the colder months, the garden still has a lot to give.

A return to the late summer garden and the effects of drought and heat.

Return to the garden in early July, and a lot has changed.

May comes around, and new arrivals are popping up everywhere.

Life needs a big plan. Then it is just a matter of small investments, optimism, some courage and good timing - possibly some luck. I...

Spring gardening and climate change.

Clearing a wood in winter

U.K. gardening in January

I left Dubai on 12 June and ran the gauntlet of heat sensors, forms and four hour check-ins to make it back to Herefordshire in time for...

There is a small rogue piece of hoggin that that still needs completing in this picture from the Woodland Way into the main raised bed...

We have been talking about the "Avenue" and whether it should be flanked with a row of trained Apple trees or even just some very low...

I will leave Jane to post a much longer piece on the progress of the garden works. Needless to say in the two weeks Jane has been in...

So I am sat at my dining table in Dubai on a Saturday evening, which is the equivalent of a Sunday evening here fighting off the "Sunday...

A frivolous post really but I am back in Dubai in the New Year enjoying the blue skies and mid 20s temperatures but obviously spending...