Wild patch in winter

The wild patch looks quite bare but there is plenty to see on close inspection.   How it will look in May Elsewhere, in the iris bed I made in the autumn, a tiny, beautiful and rather unseasonal sprig of common ramping fumitory

A break in the storm

I went out in a patch of sunshine to see how Moorhaven was faring after the rain and wind. Snug bugs… Rusty-back ferns and barren strawberry growing in cracks in the wall, and shepherd’s purse on the path above the croquet lawn.