rewilding – Notes from Crathes

Deluge

The sun was just rising over the houses and lighting up a clear frosty day in Torphins. Most of the leaves had fallen, but gold and orange remnants gave the garden its autumn cloak. To complete the picture a flock of waxwings had settled on the trees that fringed the garden. There were over twentyContinue reading “Deluge”

Let’s celebrate

The last four years have not been easy in the garden. First there was Covid to cope with: skeleton staff and no volunteers; plans laid aside; and a wilderness of weeds. In 2021 Storm Arwen took down the champion arbutus tree and a large conifer in the garden and had a devastating effect on theContinue reading “Let’s celebrate”