January Days In The Garden
I do hope your Year of 2016 has started well for you. I am looking forward to a year of more flowers and more vegetables and being outside. At this time of year, I long for Spring and yet know that I need to appreciate January for what it is in the life cycle of nature. The short hours of daylight always start to get to me around now. However, I know that each day we get a little more daylight and that gives me hope. We have had so far had such a very mild winter. It has however been extremely wet and rainy and on our heavy clay soil it has been like a wet soggy swamp! My wellies easily get stuck in it and walking in the grass just makes it a mud bath! Before all the rains came we did get quite a bit of trimming and cutting back we needed to do in the Autumn so I was pleased that is all done now. Every time I went out our resident Robin would join me and several blackbirds roamed around the grass. Today and I suspect for days to come I am not ventu...