Jayne's Country Garden

One of my favorite pastimes is sitting, either in the dining room or on the patio, and watching the birds go about their business in our gar...

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and find...

We've had some strange weather so far this December. It's gone from warm and muggy to cold, wet and windy, but certainly nothing app...

We've had some lovely weather this week, and I've been doing some tidy up in the garden - pulling out the finished zinnias, trying m...

Since I'm, shall we say, "between jobs" at present, and since the weather has been absolutely glorious this week (apart from a...

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...

It's been a gloomy, wet dreary day today -- quite appropriate for the first day of November but not conducive to getting out and working...