Seed to dust: life, nature, and a country garden

January. White

Beginnings

Peppered moth

February. Returning

Ice

Jasmine

Another gardener

climbing hydrangea

A story

Cyclops

Code-breaker

Wood pigeon

The old north

"I'm here, are you there?"

She needs a stick

March. Grass sprouts, trees bud

Cosmos

March frost

Pruning roses

Snow

Peonies

Potatoes rattle in a pan

Cherry buds appear

The middle way

Sparrows begin to nest

Bees

Daffodils

Narcissus: are you there?

Minotaur

April. Distant thunder

A vase of cherries

Dahlias

Girlish

Love is...

The window cleaner

Tulpen

Swifts arrive

Song

World sings

A broken heart

Mouse

Mowing in the rain

Floating islands

May. Peonies bloom

Gulls rip grass

Holy thorn

Mercedes

An endless stream of days

Fossils

Night scents

Burning books

Sun!

Heart

Maybug

Rain, no rain

June. A dumb labourer visits

A new path

Cold returns

Solstice

In your garden

A round of applause

Aphids

July. Stoics

Wabi-sabi

Pelargoniums

Flying ants day

Swifts leave

Pine cones

Carp

Green flames

August. Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Drewehrin)

Umbellifers

Fountain

Cats and dogs

Distant sounds

Pond scum

Laurels

A break

Gathering seeds

September. The Waste Land

'Go, go, go, said the bird'

The many-forking path

Colchicums

Scything the meadow

Autumn equinox

October. Go now, bonnie boy

October mist

Birthday

Whisky

Molecatcher

Our Lady of Flowers

Apples

First snow

November. Hop-tu-naa

Frost

Anemone to Zantedeschia

The great riddle of the self

Haiku

Gipsies

The lily gardens

Lifting dahlias

Leaving

December. We barely spoke, I tell myself... Back to work

The floating world

Home

Flowers.