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Plants for such-and-such a spot
Big Dreamer’s parents have an incredible garden. My eyes were nearly popping out with envy when we visited them last week. On arriving home, by contrast, our plot looked pretty wretched. It’s not for want of trying but I think … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged beautiful gardens, cold, difficult gardens, exposed gardens, floods, illustration, mice, moles, plant graveyard, poor soil, rabbits, rain, rats, Scottish gardening, slugs, vegetables, wind
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Fortress building
Here’s what I got up to today. As you can see from my sketchbook I’d been hatching this plan for a while! It’s all about keeping the competition out. First of all, choice of crop. Broad beans appear surprisingly frost … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged broad beans, fortress, mice, moles, rabbits, slugs
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Ode to a Tumble Drier
Snow is pouring from the sky this morning. The ground and the sky are exactly the same blinding whiteness. I am grateful to the snow because it is covering over our lawn which was feeling quite sorry for itself with … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged clothes, garden, illustration, mole hills, moles, snow, tumble drier
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Pests
This evening I have been watching the rooks coming in to roost across the still evening sky. Today we dug up half the potatoes in the vegetable patch only to find that something had gnawed and chewed its way through … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Wildlife
Tagged illustration, mice, mole repellants, moles, pests, rabbits, rooks, slugs
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