We have one area of the garden that we romantically call 'The Wilderness'.

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...

Gardener Gail Rowlands updates on how the flowers are reacting to the fluctuating summer weather, and the best types of flowers for pollinat

Useful facts about putting up a bee house for solitary bees in your garden.

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 -...

Composting, wilding and trying something new

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...

Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...

Just as I get excited by the fungi that turn up cheekily and uninvited during autumn (“Invitation? Whoever said we needed an invitation?”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....