March 2025 This is the very last diary page I will be writing, after 25 wonderful years we are retiring. As many visitors will know Alan’s health is deteriorating so we know this is the moment to close It has been lovely seeing guests enjoying our very special garden. and we are continuing with Opening our garden for the NGS You can also make contact by email klbbovey@gmail.com . April will see us open for the Bluebells, Jul for the later summer garden and Eucryphias . The grass hasn’t stopped growing , it even got a cut in January and It’s always a busy time for any gardener and there are no exceptions here., roses to be dead headed, to keep the beautiful flowers going all summer and into the autumn , June and July the garden is a typical English simmer garden with flowers everywhere . Hedges to be cut etc.. Apart from the plants and trees of course we have numerous birds who visit our garden, we recently watched a Sparrowhawk on patrol and the Buzzards wheel around overhead in the sunshine ! The Owls have resumed there evening calling across the garden just as it falls dusk. Robins and Blackbirds claiming their territory, Wrens . Bullfinches , all sorts of Tits, Chaffinches, Wagtails searching for food . We’ve been visited by a Goshawk, have a Woodpecker drumming away at the metal plate on the top of the electricity pole. The male pheasant it strutting his stuff and a Guinea fowl popped to see us recently. There’s always something going on in the bird worls as there is in the animal visitors. So far in 2025 we have been visited by Foxes, Bagers (digging up the front lawn !), Roe deer, Rabbits (another batch of hole diggers) a family of Squirrels including a tiny one from last year who taunts Woody the cat Stay safe and keep well