14-12-2018
While temperatures are mild, the past weeks have seen lots of wind and rain, including flood warnings.
In the garden, winter flowering plants are displaying their beauty. Eleagnus has tiny cream coloured flowers that emit an enticing perfume. Willow flowers are an important winter food for bees.

Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), a much dreaded garden weed, has died down on the surface, but below ground its root system is going strong. Thankfully, roots are white and therefore easy to distinguish from other roots. It’s a plant one has to admire, really. In Ireland it flowers in white or a very pale pink, but there’s a beautiful blue-flowering relative (Ipomoea indica) covering walls and trees in the Mediterranean and further afield.

The young apple tree has settled in after a difficult year and will hopefully get through the winter and grow stronger next year.