BORDER FLOWERS COMING IN MARCH 2010 in all high street and online bookstores

IN March 2010 we launch  Border Flowers, the fourth in the Greenfingers Series designed to help gardeners the world over get the best from their gardens. This one's a cracker (even though I say so myself)  and will elevate your garden beds and borders to something quite magical. Remember stunning plant combinations don't just happen - you need to experiment and put some creative thought into it. Winter is as good a time as any to make that plant wish-list and plan a planting scheme that will have your neighbours sighing with admiration.

All the birds have stripped the berries

It was a cheerful festive sight, heavy clusters of red berries dripping like beads of wax from the deep green of the cotoneaster. 

Not that I haven't noticed the covert birdy birdy num-num operation going on right under my nose.  Now all the berries are gone - not -one left - into the warm little feathered tummies of our local bird life. This cold snap has underpinned their more relaxed habitual foraging with a more urgent need. Frost is frost and birds get hungry. So throw out stale breadcrumbs or a bit of bird seed if you can to help them out this winter. Just place a handful on a branch if you don't have a bird table. ( Not on the floor or the foxes will have it.) Be nice to wildlife now and they will hang around and eat all those nasties for you next spring and summer.

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Crisp frosty morning today - lovely

Rainstorm by clapping -Winter solstice

http://www.mixx.com/videos/6502829/rain_sound_storm_by_clapping 

It's raining it's pouring ....

I can't say another thing about blooming rain- we are all browned off with it. 
Instead here is a great clip from Perpetual Jazzile all about wet and  stormy weather.

Around December 21/22nd we have the shortest day - from then on the days will start getting longer. Slowly but surely, we shall see the sun again. Put it in your diary, even dull, dreadful days like this can't last forever. Yippee.

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