Professor Hedgehog's Journal

As the sun was (briefly) shining just now on the shortest day of the year, I took the opportunity to nip into the garden between cake icing and (yet more) mince pie making, to record what is still flowering after this absurdly mild autumn (don’t forget that by some reckonings winter officially starts today!!!). I couldn’t come up with any roses, but that’s because I don’t grow many – had I cheated and photographed my neighbours’ front gardens there would have been roses in abundance. And I can’t claim any freakishly early narcissi, though the leaves of many bulbs are well and truly though. Alas, my Iris unguicularis have not yet appeared so far this year, though there are lots around elsewhere. Perhaps the snails have taken to munching them in bud instead of allowing them to unfurl first. Continue reading →