Crafty Green Poet

In the Blushing Golden sunlight of autumn they gather in the Parkland of the Garden Royale for the Gala. Captain Kidd, master of ceremon...

Another lovely day yesterday. We spent the afternoon in Crafty Green Boyfriend's mother's garden It's looking lovel...

Sparrow-hawk falls from the sky precision hunter, yellow eyes staring defiance, pummels sparrow to extinction. Domestic cat, disturbed by he...

The mixed salad leaves are doing well on our windowsill garden!

I spent the weekend at my parents' home in suburban Manchester. It was lovely to see them again and the weather was beautiful on the Sat...

In Malaya, Yun Ling's desire to build a memorial for her sister, killed at the hand of the Japanese during their occupation of Malaya, l...

Today for 30 Days Wild , I decided to spend some time with some frogs and at the same time to take part in the RSPB frogface campaign . Th...

Crafty Green Boyfriend's Mum has two ponds in her garden and at the moment the whole garden is full of frogs. There are tiny frogs ...

Under sun speckled pond weed water writhes with tadpoles. Suddenly a frog emerges,  head draped in weed  watchi...

I sowed some organic rocket seeds in a pot on our windowsill garden a couple of days ago and here they are today!

We're a long way from being self sufficient but I thought it might be interesting to list the foods we grow ourselves etc: Grow on our...

We've grown tomatoes for several years now and have nad good crops every year. This year, one of our tomato plants is producing full siz...

Our windowsill garden is doing well. the mixed salad leaves and coriander are doing better than ever on our living room windowsill. Our toma...

I recently harvested the first batch of salad leaves from our windowsill garden. They were delicious alongside hummus. I think the harvests ...

As many of you will know, we've been growing tomatoes and herbs on our windowsills for a few years now. At the moment, our first tomatoe...