Nant y Bedd

Sue’s surprise birthday present to me this year was a weekend course to build a coracle. Run by our pond-building pal Mick Petts and based at the home of another friend...

Some people have more imagination than others.  What I saw as a large bit of timber which might make a seat, Sue saw a crocodile! It all stems back to when...

Every year ‘The Beast”, otherwise known as the laurel hedge, strikes fear and trepidation into us as we try to work out how to get to the tops and sides for...

A Happy New Year to all our followers and other readers. Most people will only have seen our stream in the summer, when it can be just a mere trickle.  However...

Yesterday’s blog on the phantom tulip snatcher had a photo of what might or might not have been the badger returning to the Bears Cave.  It was so indistinct that even...

It seems that as fast as Sue plants her thousands of tulip bulbs, something comes along at night and digs them up.  She’s tried: —  putting paprika on them before planting...

And the following day the weather entry in the garden diary reads: “Much brighter today.  Woke to a garden sprinkled in snow’ We’ll certainly be glad that the woodsheds are full...

“My favourite gardens have no borders”, says Sarah Price, starting off her recent article on ‘Wildflowers in gardens’ in Gardens Illustrated.  Sarah has visited our garden a couple of times and...

The housemartins have finally left for their holidays down South, the fledglings have all left their nests, but there’s a new sounding of tweeting at Nant y Bedd – we’ve become...

Don’t worry, Sue hasn’t left the garden and signed up with the US Army!  GI is apparently shorthand for the magazine Gardens Illustrated as used by “those in the know”. GI...