Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
The cheering sight of berries still on the cotoneaster, with ground elder sparklers to complete the look.
Mild winters make the birds less eager to strip every twig and branch of their convenient energy snacks, and so the sodden late December garden is still punctuated with tiny blobs of deep red. There are rosehips outside my window and woven through the mixed native hedge my neighbour still hasn’t quite forgiven me for planting (hawthorn and blackthorn and wild rose not quite a favourite combination, it seems), and berries on the Cotoneaster horizontalis. I take great pleasure in this as I walk through the garden in the last of the day’s pale sunshine – although the Christmas tree has lights, we’ve yet to hang the baubles, and it’s comforting to see that Mother Nature hasn’t let the festive decorations slide.
A year of garden coaching
I’m very excited about my new venture – it’s a way for me to work with more people than I can physically get around to, helping them to make the very best of their gardens in a way that suits the life they lead. If you’d like to find out more, please click here to book for a January 2020 start.
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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.
