January

My plan this year is to catalogue flowers on the southern verge of Bittaford Road, between Bittaford and Ivybridge train station, while keeping an eye on what is flowering along Wrangaton Road between Moorhaven and Green Lane. In the garden, there was ice on the pond but there are some beautiful flowers out too, including climbing…

Hedgehog

Early one morning in late autumn, Lucy spotted a small hedgehog rooting among fallen yellow acer leaves. We both watched as it carried its chosen leaves to a small heap. We hope it is snugly hibernating inside, and we shan’t be gardening here until the spring because it would be easy to overlook such a small nest.  

Pond

We have been trying to make our garden more wildlife friendly. We have marked off some areas of lawn as wildflower areas, made leaf and log piles, and put up a bug hotel. The biggest change was digging a pond. We planted it out with mainly native plants from Devon pond plants: lesser spearwort, common…