Kitchen garden blog : simple tasks for January. Make the most of the kitchen garden – even in January! The winter season’s inclement weather can be uninviting to even the most ardent garden enthusiast. Plans to go outside and tackle the soggy or solid soil might fizzle out within a few weeks of the New Year. Disappointment may set in as enthusiasm to get gardening is thwarted by frozen grounds and icy fingers. January might be seen as a wasted month in the gardening calendar. Yet isn’t necessary to be out in the garden every day, or even every week. There are many ways to remain engaged in the kitchen garden and help it to get growing, without having to brace the elements or battle against an over-ambitious ‘to-do’ list. Armchair gardening The January Garden can be harnessed positively, even from indoors(!) – make the most of it as a time to: read through gardening books to broaden knowledge and gather new ideas, plan what to grow, and sketch up garden design plans. Fair...
British Wildlife Watercolours. British wildlife, birds and flowers are carefully painted using watercolours, based on the wildlife and botanical subjects from the garden and local woods. Wildlife such as small British woodland animals (badgers, foxes, squirrels, mice, bats, deer, otters, wild cats, stoats, weasels - even wild boar, pine martens, beavers and, one day, lynx may return to the wilds of Britain!) and UK garden birds, butterflies and bees, along with ladybirds and dragonflies, add to the joys to be found in the garden, or just beyond, all year round. Watercolours can be used to capture the beauty in the animal or plant subject using the fluidity of the paints. Everyone's favourite! A beautiful owl resting amongst the bluebells. British Wildlife Watercolours : Watercolour Owl and Bluebell British Wildlife Watercolours : Watercolour Bird Painting of a Sparrow and Worm Watercolours can be used in a variety of wildlife paintings for different effects bas...