Closing the gate

I've been sharing my garden now for a full year and the same plants are flowering, the same bugs threatening. If you've been following for a while you might well ask, "where are the photos of the tulips that you planted last autumn?" My answer is, "ask the mice or squirrels," whoever it was, they ate the lot!

Last May I had no idea what a blog was, but a friend suggested that it was an easy means of recording my garden in both words and pictures, something that I wanted to do before my ability to work in the garden diminished. The following month I started blogging. At first I had no concept of followers, and then no knowledge of how you would find me and what fun you would be once you had.

My garden teeters on the edge of chaos, which is how I like it, full of what someone has described as, 'the awful abundance of nature!' But my back need only deteriorate a little more and my hands and knees become less able and everything will riot out of my control.

It is an old, established garden, and apart from minor details it remains the same year after year. To continue to share it with you would become tediously repetitive, so I am closing the gate. But I am loathe to leave the blogging friends that I've made so I am planning a new title where I can rabbit on about anything, although if an interesting plant appears in the garden then I shall, of course, open the gate and invite you back in.

I hope that you will follow Miss Cellany, a title that allows me to talk about any and everything!

Dictionary definition of miscellany - medley, miscellaneous writings etc. collected together.