Our ‘horsey’ border has a few sedums and heuchera still giving colour, along with lots of creeping buttercup. I like buttercup, it is a fairly amenable weedy ground-cover that can stay there until we put something else in. The horsey head statue was in the garden when we arrived, and the four leaf clover was sold with the story that it’s made of horseshoes from the stables of Olympic showjumper William Fox Pitt.

The willow fedge (a cross between a fence and a hedge) could use some revitalising – the twisty crossbars have had their day and they were not particularly well done when I put them in a couple of years ago.

I’ve got some cut material from when we pruned willow and the twisted hazel earlier this year. I’ll use it to weave new rows to replace the older ones. That might be a job for today…

Despite the frost last week, there are a few flowers still. The primrose seems to think it might be spring.

And the little white pansies by the catflap are still blooming.

And a few oak leaves are hanging on to the little English Oak bonsai on the kitchen windowsill. This little oak grew from an acorn I collected nearby, and I gave it a new topping of moss to keep its toes warm.

The disco ball hangs from twisted hazel byt the red apple tree. It has a bronze wind-catcher to help it spin, catching the winter sunshine – when we have any – sparkling pleasingly. It is good to see the ferns we planted here are settling into place, it’s a very shady spot under that hazel.

Well, that’s my selection of six garden things for this week.
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Have a lovely week,

Jen x