Amateur Gardening

Letters to Wendy

Homes for nature

IT was so lovely to read my AG mag and not to worry for a time about what’s going on, and see all the beautiful pictures and articles.

My husband Alan and I are working in our garden: how lucky we are to have a garden at all. Every day, I’m out at dawn looking at everything growing, and I feel much more cheerful.

Alan has been very busy making bee hotels for me, shown in the photos. I now have five hotels in

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