EAGLETON NOTES

Apart from seeing a friend on Saturday morning and attending to the washing machine for 4 loads of washing on Sunday I spent from Thursday l...

Many of my daffodils had been in the garden for decades and were past their best and I wanted new ones in some areas too. I went to a large ...

When JayCee commented on my last blog it made me go to my side-bar to see whether she had started blogging again. I discovered that somehow...

I'm conscious of the fact that it's a while, even for me, since I posted. I've had Blogger's Block. It's not quite the s...

It's been a bit of a battle in the garden the last few weeks. The weather has been distinctly unfriendly and today although the sun has ...

Well there was no way I was going to use the 'S' word was there? That would really get the bot[toms]s going wild. So instead of the...

This year has been one of the strangest in my garden. The early warm spell in April fooled everything and then the constant rain thereafter...

The East Dumbartonshire Council on the East side of Glasgow have been planting small open spaces like roundabouts, bits of verge at junctio...

Last week was a strange week: ordinary but strange. After weeks of my morning walk in the woods being in the rain and cold wind the wind ...

I always used to be a little sceptical about the 'fact' that if one bas one's feet off the ground a bull will not attack.  So t...

'Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his gl...

I have been getting rid of this plant in the garden thinking that it was a weed.  Silly me.  It's Lady's Mantle ( Alchmeilla ) and a...

When Anna was here she bought some sunflowers.  They have been in the conservatory now for over a week and look as fresh as the day they arr...

Despite the wind the Pinks or Dianthus are really thriving in the rockery and have been giving a lovely display for a few weeks already. Th...