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Harvest Dolly made from my favourite herbs, August 2021 A traditional harvest custom I've always liked is that of weaving corn dollies ...

  August is the time of the grain harvest, but of course it's also the month that the blackberry harvest begins. I've been eagerly a...

It's August, and Rowan berries are ripening to brilliant scarlet, gloriously bright against the blue-grey skies. The Rowan is one of my ...

Although the trees are bare in Winter, they have their own beauty at this time of year. The absence of leaves makes it easy to see the grace...

Today I spotted the first snowdrop flowers that I've seen this year. It was only a small patch and the bells hadn't yet opened prope...

  Along with Holly and Ivy , Mistletoe is one of the classic Yuletide plants with which people traditionally decorate their homes - yet it ...

Now that deciduous trees have shed  virtually all   their leaves, the evergreens come into their own. Especially eye-catching is the Holly, ...

Pic: Ivy (Hedera helix ssp. helix) showing both mature (left) and juvenile (right) forms of the leaves.   As an evergreen, ivy is far more v...

At the height of summer, two wonderful healing herbs are blooming spectacularly in the hedgerows and meadows around Halfway Up A Hill. I ...