Last week was National Tree Week and here are a few of the barks cheering us up in this dismal weather #GardensHour #Trees #Bark #NationalTreeWeek #WildlifeGarden #OrganicGarden #VisitNorthYorkshire

I do love a warm fire

Beastly weekend, floods and storm damage but on the garage wall Trachelospermum jasminoides is turning red and cheering me up enormously, the fact that it also has very fragrant flowers in the summer makes it desirable #Gardenshour #climbers #evergreen #fragrantflowers

Snow scenes are often magical, not so ‘Hannah Hauxwell Last Winter’, one of Peter Brook’s bleakest of some 50 portrayals of the Baldersdale farmer living and working alone at Low Birk Hatt, a truly cold painting with no sign of the usual touch of colour or brightness in the sky.

Amongst the brown soggy foliage the early snowdrops are a delight, this is Peter Gatehouse, has been in flower for a month now and not one of the wildly expensive forms #gardenjoy #snowdrops #gardenshour #WinterAhead #heartofyorkshire

The weather has driven Donald into the airing cupboard, I feel like joining him

Wishing all our visitors and helpers a very Happy Christmas and may 2025 be wonderful for us all I am now taking a few days off to host a large family gathering here #Gardenshour #Christmaswreath #gardenjoy #opengarden #gardenfoliage

From the office window this evening

We couldn’t say goodbye to 2024 without a shout out to our brilliant BTO Cuckoos! 12 have successfully made it to their wintering grounds in Africa this year! 😀🌍 You can follow the birds on our website ➡️ bto.org/cuckoos #BTOScience #Ornithology 📷 Neil Calbrade / BTO

This is a shrub I would never be without, low-growing, evergreen and covered with scented flowers in January, Sarcococca confusa #Evergreenshrub #Scent #Winterflowers #Wildlifegarden #organicgarden #Yorkshire #Gardenshour

This is what happens when you try to tidy up must have been about 1985!

After 4 weeks in hospital I am home sharing my breakfast with Donald who is 9 today and taking care of me

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We love our season ticket holders and this is one of our very special visitors, he is 93, loves our garden and visits us often

Beautifully made obelisks at our workshop with Dragon Willow

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First broad beans, delicious

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