Diary Of A Wild Country Garden

Birds Visiting Our Garden I Love birds, feeding them, watching them and we have quite a few regulars to our garden. Our garden birds helped me so much when I had severe back and sciatic pain. When I could do nothing else and barely move out of my home, I could watch them out of the window and laugh at their antics and marvel at their beauty. Here are some of our bird visitors. Please note that my priority is always not to disturb the birds so for this I do sometimes sacrifice photo quality. Please do not copy the photos without my permission.  I have included some videos here not taken by us but which are very lovely too, I hope you like them. Our Garden And Our Birds When we first moved into our home, the garden was not much to speak of. It was of moderate size and just grass. It did have a mixed hedge at the bottom of the garden. The previous owners had used pesticides and slug pellets etc to keep...

My Farmers Market Local Farmers markets Of course I don't always stay in my garden and part of my life is to visit Farmers markets where I do get many of my plants and items for the garden and food for our home. As things start to slow in the garden I wanted to tell you about our Farmers markets.  I love Farmers Markets. We always go to our local Farmers Market when it is on and as its not on every week we sometimes go to others in nearby villages and towns. The atmosphere at our local farmers' market is great and we buy fresh lovely produce and crafts. This page is a celebration of Farmer's markets, local produce and why we love them! I will be honest with you and say that I do shop at supermarkets and local shops as well but I do try to shop local whenever possible. They can also offer goods farmers markets do not and are available every day while our local farmers market is once a month. I am grateful that they are there for me...

This is about The Wildlife Gardener Book by Kate Bradbury. I adore this book! It is all about gardening for wildlife in our gardens. Something I feel we all need to do much more of if we are to help and preserve our diverse and natural wildlife. As we increasingly build on our countryside, our small or large gardens, even our patios and window boxes,  are going to be more vital than ever to provide food, shelter and habitat for our wildlife. It is so easy to do and helps them so much.  I originally bought this book for a friend as a present and spent the week in between buying it and wrapping it up avidly reading it. In the end I loved it so much and found myself wanting to refer back to it and missing reading it, I had to go and order another one to keep for me! The photographs are beautiful and for me that is really important in a gardening or wildlife book, especially if it is a gift. It is the sort of book that is a joy to re...