Jayne's Country Garden

When I lived in England, I was always accustomed to seeing butterflies floating about the garden in June, July and August. In fact I remem...

Here we are in December and, although we had some cold weather a nd even some frosts earlier in the fall, the recent weather has been very ...

What a wonderful day to be out in the garden!  Clear blue skies, low humidity, pleasant temperatures - just perfect!  OK, so I had ...

Just a couple of days ago, I blogged that we were still getting Monarch butterflies in the garden, and that we h ad a lot of caterpillars ...

I had been looking forward to getting out in the garden and tidying up the milkweed.  It's looking scraggly and it's covered in aphi...

One evening during the week, I headed out to the front garden with a view to pruning the milkweed, which have completely taken over the fron...

Earlier this week I noticed a mockingbird that seemed to be coming and going a lot. At one point I saw it on the fence with a beak full of ...

Recently I've seen other bloggers posting photographs of Monarch butterflies and Monarch caterpillars in their garden and I've been ...

Slowly, but surely, the garden is blooming out. The wait has been hard for me, but then I'm not the most patient person in the world.  S...