Amateur Gardening

The garden at wild

It wasn’t a glorious spring in Cold Aston this year and the temperature rarely got above 14C. That might have been alright, but for the strong northerly wind chill. It was coat and hat weather here and that definitely affected the wildlife in my garden. The natural world is dynamic and that doesn’t mean hyperactive, or successful. It means that it follows a process that’s constantly changing and progressing in different ways. Wildlife don’t follow the same path every year. There are highs and lows that adjust year on year.

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