by Elizabeth Cairns | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Several weeks of cold weather with hard frosts and clear skies at night and some wonderful sunsets put the snowdrops on hold and I was beginning to get anxious about our National Gardens Scheme open days on 5th – 7th February. Fortunately this last week has been...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
It is now less than two weeks until our NGS open days. it has been cold so our snowdrops seem to be a little late this year but we think there should be plenty in flower for the snowdrop weekend on 5 – 7 February. Some old friends are appearing and it is lovely...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Jan 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
The marvellously warm days of late December brought more of the snowdrops in the garden to life. Three Ships is still flowering three weeks on but is now joined by the amazing Mrs Macnamara. Often she is flowering by Christmas but this year unaccountably she delayed...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Dec 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
How it lifts one’s spirits to see the first early snowdrops appearing. It has been so warm that we have only just begun the task of clearing the dying foliage in the borders but how enchanting it is to find beneath the leaves the earliest snowdrops pushing...
by Elizabeth Cairns | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
November is not my favourite month but this year it has not felt as gloomy as usual. We have had some beautiful sunny days, occasional frosty nights with glittering displays of stars and a gleaming new moon. There has been very little wind which can be so damaging at...
