Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Black bryony has been peeking out of this tall hedge of Viburnum tinus all year long. I don’t mind it just now.
Cats are magnificent creatures – anywhere but in my garden. Actually, I’ll modify that statement – anywhere but in my flower-...worse still, vegetable-beds. I’m more than happy for them to wander about sheds and greenhouse reducing the rodent population, and especially if that sates their muderous impluses sufficiently to keep them from the birds. I’m less than delighted when I come across something revolting buried just beneath the surface while I’m weeding, or when Bill makes a beeline for the nearest pile of ‘Scooby Snacks’ and I spend the next twenty minutes cleaning it off his muzzle. A cat will read freshly turned earth or newly spread compost as a human’s attempt to curry favour with the feline gods and so, having proffered up this fresh litter tray offering, the gardener is driven to ever more ingenious ways of trying to keep the soil unsullied and the produce un-squashed. Currently each raised bed looks like a hibernaculum for a bamboo porcupine.*
Garden coaching with Andrew O’Brien
Just to let you know, I’ll shortly be opening up a few spaces for one-to-one online garden coaching. The final details are still being tweaked, but if this sounds like something you’d be interested in, let me know on this page so I can tell you as soon as booking opens.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
