Winter Builds and Blues

It has been a long and cold winter, and little has been going on in the garden. If I'm honest it's not looking great and it's rather depressing looking at it. But that's winter in the garden for you. 

It's time to get moving and do some work and I have plenty of plans and ideas for this year. I even have an event to prepare for, more on that another time. So today I have started building a bird house or more appropriately a bird and bug hotel. It will be about 7 feet high once in place and have 4 bird house and a big box in it.

You can see that it's coming along well, I just need some dry and mild weather to get it finished. It's made out of an old plasterboard pallet donated to me by my Neighbour Joe! He knows I am a pallet feind!!

Winter Hens

My hens experienced snow for the first time just after Christmas, for the new exbats its must have been such a shock. They had only recently got used to what grass, rain and nighttime are. Luckily their feathers are growing well and the chill didn't effect them to much. Nevertheless I gave them a warm treat of spagetti! I am sure they think they are worms!  

  

My Home and Garden

Its been a long winter so far and I have found it hard to motivate myself to write anything on here. But I am getting the January feeling, that feeling that many gardeners get, the eager anticipation that soon we will be sowing seeds and planting this years crops. My motivation is starting to return! 

I do love my home and the life I have built with my partner, I really can't think of anywhere else I would want to be. For Christmas then I commissioned an art work by a friend of our home and garden for my Girlfriend. I think its brilliant, its not an exact representation but it has all the main features that make it recognizable. The Mrs loved it too!! Which was what I was hoping for!

The artist if your interested is Tim Bridges and you can find him on Facebook through his page Secret Industries.