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I turn 41 next month, still a youngster I know, but I've been noticing recently signs that I'm getting older….. Thinking about the good old days, and the older I get the more good old days there are to look back on. Trying to remember where I left things and I find myself walking in the tool shed and trying ...

We don't just have one one-legged pheasant. We have two. A male and female with two legs between them that Hew has named Percy and Percina ...

realise that many moments I have in the garden amount to bird-watching. I love sitting with a mug of tea, hands dirty, watching the birds watching me ...

There's been a delivery........of 9,150 bulbs to be precise ...

Dahlias are back in vogue. Once dismissed as being terribly old fashioned and vulgar - gardeners and florists can't get enough of the enduring charm of dahlias ...

Leslie wrote such wonderful, witty blogs for our website - I hope I can do her justice ...

St George’s Day and the countryside has never looked better. The air is cleaner, the racket of cars, lorries and planes has almost vanished and nature is taking control ...

British houses and gardens have never, I suspect, been tidier. The lockdown removes all the excuses about not having enough time to go round making rooms neater ...

Columbine Hall achieved a major step forward when a photograph of the 1390s jettied house, surrounded by its moat, made the front cover of Country Life ...

April has been a good month here at Columbine Hall. We have just got our copy of the new Suffolk:West volume of The Buildings of England, compiled by Dr James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner ...