Just yesterday, despite bitter cold, I was drawn to the window by lively birdsong coming from the little enclosed garden below.  Within a ...

  Happy Christmas! The Veg Patch has spent much of the last week under snow and ice so there's little to report. Instead I shall wis...

D'ya like the snowfall effect I've added to my page?  We've had flurries of snow for real from midweek here in North London - ca...

Loving the colours in this photo. Here's one of our blueberry bushes, waiting to be planted on, but braving the December cold with ...

(Photo: The Veg Patch in  February 2009) … from this, to this… (Photo: The Veg Patch in December 2009) I eagerly await the time when ...

Here's one I made earlier … (fits into CD case) For me, one of the many benefits of writing this blog is being able to indulge my lo...

There's something deeply adorable about moss - vibrant colour, velvety texture, strokeable and somewhat spooky - what's not to lov...