December in #Southwold has been a mixture of winter high winds, calm seas, and freezing and very mild weather. Take your pick, but that’s what makes winter interesting in Suffolk; there’s no guessing really what is coming next. The month started with a Christmas Fayre at the “Cathedral of the Marshes”, Blythburgh Church, where next[…]
It may be almost December, but there is still an amazing amount of garden colour in the Southwold area – probably because we haven’t had heavy frosts yet, and as always, it’s remarkably dry. All of these photo were taken in our Reydon garden, and at Mandalay, there are nasturtiums and lavatera still managing to[…]
Definitely an event not to be missed and you need to starve yourself a bit before you go to make the most of it. On the last weekend of July, and the first weekend of August, this unique event has been taking place for the last 40 years or so. Set down a quiet country[…]
If you’re a gardener, three’s nothing better than being able to nose around someone else’s garden, as there is always something to learn, so the Westleton Garden Trail on Saturday 8th June was worth the short trip from Southwold. The curious thing this year was that many plants were a month behind, so some magnolias[…]
I knew that it was too good to be true; a few days of warmer weather does not mean Spring has arrived, particularly when the wind then swings round to the North-East and brings a dump of snow from Siberia and dumps it on the first available land-mass. Us. Hopefully, it won’t last long, and[…]
It’s always a surprise to find just how many wild flowers there are hidden in the marram grass of the sand dunes, but they are there if you look hard enough. Today I have found sea peas in abundance, with their tiny bluey-purple and white flowers, the bright yellow and orange tiny flowers of birds[…]