Category: General Interest

  • Garden news

    The 2025 update on the Powell garden – with lots of photos, naturally!

  • Gairloch Gardens

    Anna and I visited Gairloch Gardens in May and August this year – Cherry trees, butterflies, waves and beautiful grounds.

  • Garden 2024

    2024 was another good year in the garden. Photo gallery.

  • Powell Garden 2022

    2022 was another strange year for growing things. We started some Morning Glory seeds inside and got a good response, but then the transplants didn’t do so well. A couple put out some half-hearted blossoms and then seemed to give up. Until September, when another pair took off and produced a number of decent flowers. […]

  • Beaver Lodge

    Up until a couple of years ago, I would have laughed if anyone had suggested that I would be living in a suburban area and could look out of our laundry room window and be able to see a beaver lodge. OK, maybe I’d need binoculars, but literally three minutes from home, there it is. […]