The garden in winter, watching birds and seed viability

This week I cover structure and ground cover in the garden, floral diversity in January, the benefits of looking and learning, testing seeds for viability and more

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As we approach the end of January and start the Year of the Snake, I’m seeing lots of posts about spring being on the way. To my mind that’s rather early – there is plenty of winter weather to come I am sure. But it’s a good time to spend time in the garden, just walking around and looking, as its so much easier to assess structure and layers when the garden is bare of leaves and, mostly importantly, make notes and take photos.

Pondering structure and floral diversity

While I know the overall look look and feel that I‘m trying to achieve in my garden in summer, I’m not very good at getting all year rou…