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  • Six starlings, five jackdaws and a pheasant in a manure heap...!

    Six starlings, five jackdaws and a pheasant in a manure heap...!

    Wednesday 19th December 2018

    This recent visitor to the site is totally unperturbed by curious plotholders snapping pics.

  • Dead hedges, evergreen hedge and all things composting

    Dead hedges, evergreen hedge and all things composting

    Wednesday 21st November 2018

    On Sunday we were privileged to hear Guy Barter, Chief Horticulturalist at RHS Wisley talk to plotholders and answer questions about all things composting.

  • The Poppy Red, autumn harvest and apples

    The Poppy Red, autumn harvest and apples

    Friday 9th November 2018

    In choir we’ve been singing ‘The Poppy Red’, music composed by Owain Park, commissioned by the Military Wives Choirs to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War.

  • Halloween Horror!  Last rose of summer, wood wasping and frogs..

    Halloween Horror! Last rose of summer, wood wasping and frogs..

    Wednesday 31st October 2018

    This horror scene greeted me a couple of weeks ago – nature red in tooth and claw.

  • Wet and warm, bees and ivy

    Wet and warm, bees and ivy

    Wednesday 17th October 2018

    The week after our sunny Autumn Social Sunday was a very different scene! The unseasonably warm Indian summer seems to have broken, with misty, damp October mornings and heavy rain…

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