Yellow once again dominates my thoughts and this week I’ve embroidered a dandelion and buttercup. Both flowers are beginning to appear and once established will be with us through the summer into autumn by which time their reproductive success will have alienated all who want to maintain a flawless lawn and a weed free herbaceous […]

A few more flowers for the patchwork altar frontal.* All three of these related plants grow happily locally and the violet in particular has made itself very at home around the large tree at the entrance to Ipsden churchyard. Both the violet (Viola reichenbachiana/ the early dog violet shown here) and heartsease (Viola tricolor) are […]