Our garden has several wild dog roses (Rosa Canina). There are fields and a farm next door, so the roses sit among the wild honeysuckle, elder and bramble in the hedgerow. To collect the petals I took a walk along the hedgerow with a bowl and touched each rose that was wide open and had lost half its petals and knocked...
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Spring Living Rural
“Beginnings” is a good theme for spring. What better beginning is there this year than the delightful spring we’re having. So, in this first blog, and as an introduction, I thought I’d talk about our adventures over the years living rural in Ireland and the Netherlands during spring. Here in the rainy west of Ireland we’ve had a very mild winter....
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