Spiky Bed’s looking nice at the moment.

We planted these last year for a dear friend who committed suicide. It’s really nice to see them up and looking so nice. Love you, pal.

I’m calling this composition ‘A Penguin Through Magnolia’.

This garden really needs loads more Magnolia trees.

One of the nicest things about UK bog-standard amenity planting is the tons and tons of plain old supermarket daffs we get every year. Fascinating and obscure botanical specimens are one thing, but I love simple run-of-the-mill daffodils in Spring.

My mum is from Manchester so I was raised a United fan. I’ve been a season ticket holder at Hibs for ten years, because we lived just down the road from the stadium in Leith. And now we’ve moved out west our local team is Dumbarton. Mind you, one of my best pals is a Montrose fan, so he’s happy.

Well folks, good it most certainly was not, but the infrastructure is intact and fortunately most of the stuff that came down didn’t take much else with it. I suppose it gives us the chance to replant with trees of known, recorded provenance.

Some nice ‘low winter sun’ pics as we prepare for the new year…

Happy Christmas folks.

Pretty sure this is exactly how Kew and RBGE celebrate Christmas.

It all got a bit Local Hero round our way the other night:

A picture of The Linn from 1995, sent to us by a generous neighbour:

Evening.