New trees for winter colour and wildlife
We usually plant a few trees each winter. This year we have concentrated on the back meadow area, which is rather bare and boring during...
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Jul 27, 20232 min read
Flowers, frustrations and the art of patience in the garden
Gardener Gail Rowlands updates on how the flowers are reacting to the fluctuating summer weather, and the best types of flowers for pollinat
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Jun 22, 20232 min read
Get a bee hotel for your garden – they’re fascinating!
Useful facts about putting up a bee house for solitary bees in your garden.
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May 2, 20235 min read
What are the benefits of having fish in our pond? Are there drawbacks for wildlife?
Our large pond, which has been part of the farm landscape for at least 450 years, is teeming with fish. They’re a mixture of carp -...
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Mar 28, 20233 min read
My Wilderness Experiment
Composting, wilding and trying something new
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Nov 21, 20224 min read
Dead wood - dead good for your garden
Why dead wood is a must in a wildlife friendly garden Dead wood is bountiful in the Langdon garden and we love it. We have learned and...
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Apr 26, 20213 min read
Talking to Gail about her springtime woodland pathway
Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...
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Apr 19, 20213 min read
Wildflowers at Langdon
Just as I get excited by the fungi that turn up cheekily and uninvited during autumn (“Invitation? Whoever said we needed an invitation?”...
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Apr 5, 20218 min read
The Babe and the Old Timer – Tales of Two Ash Trees
Tree Diaries ~ Apr 2021 Julie’s ash – About 5 yrs old The Old Ash – About 120 years old? The arrival of a new tree a few weeks ago has...
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Feb 11, 20212 min read
Tracks in the snow
We woke to a fresh and thick layer of snow coating the ground and lacing the trees. Tracks – humans, and a mystery animal. (To the right...
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
Soggy Fragments
My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...
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Jan 24, 20214 min read
Willows and Wilding
A couple of months ago I noticed that some of the huge ‘weeds’ growing in the area we’ve nicknamed the Jungle weren’t dying back like the...
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Dec 30, 20206 min read
Fungi Finale
For my final post of 2020 I’m returning to my new found love of fungi with a round up of some more amazing species that I’ve found in the...
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Dec 16, 20205 min read
Getting along with rabbits and moles
We have lots of these burrowing furry fellows here at Langdon, and in the past week the two of them have had me thinking and keeping me...
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Dec 2, 20204 min read
Tree planting at Langdon
A copper beech, planted Nov 2018. Unlike some of the young trees they are thick with leaves already, and keep them almost all year round....
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Nov 10, 20203 min read
Woodpecker in the Ash
This is our ash tree. We have just the one, and it’s become a personal favourite of mine – for lots of reasons, but mostly because of the...
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Nov 3, 20202 min read
More Funky Fungi
I’m just loving the fungi. Now that I’ve got my fungi-finding radar fully primed, I’m coming across them everywhere – and lots of...
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Oct 26, 20202 min read
Hedgehog Hunting – Update
A couple of weeks ago I posted about a hedgehog feeding station that I’d set up, with a promise to update you as to whether we got any...
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Oct 19, 20203 min read
Funky Fungi
I absolutely love how fungi sprout up all over the garden at this time of year as the colder, wetter atmosphere beckons them out to play....
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Oct 13, 20203 min read
Hedgehog Hunting – Part 1
Hedgehogs have declined by more than half since 2000.* I find it hard to get my head round that. How can we have messed up SO badly in...
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