Category Archives: Looking Back

When we first moved here in 2023, the garden wasn’t welcoming us with flowers and wildlife. It greeted us with long, wet grass. After weeks of rain, the ground finally dried, and I was able to mow. It wasn’t pretty, but it was a start. The tidier look pleased me, and though I had noContinue reading “Meeting with Hazel”

It began for me in winter 2024, when scented flowers are most elusive. I was caught off guard by the perfume of a neighbour’s Sarcococca Confusa—not a particularly showy shrub, but one with an amazingly bold aroma from its tiny white flowers. In winter, whilst the garden is in a dormant state, and the greyContinue reading “Garden of Fragrances”