Articles by Lynne Allbutt

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 21st May 2022 Oh My Darling Celandine In early spring, I wrote about the sunny celandines in the hedgerows heralding the arrival of spring and […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 14th May 2022 Water Good Idea We only had a third of the traditional rainfall in April, and May has been dry so far […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 7th May 2022 Beautiful Bluebells It’s a great year for bluebells. They love dry conditions and this year have reacted to the drier-than-usual April […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 30th April 2022 I’m not quite sure why I feel it necessary to highlight the end of one month and beginning of another, but I […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 23rd April 2022 Be-leaf it or Not Tidying up in general around the garden over Easter weekend yielded a nice haul of nettle tops.  They […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 16th April 2022 Easter’s Gone Crackers One old (and nearly forgotten about) Easter tradition is that potatoes should be planted on Good Friday. Apparently Catholics […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 9th April 2022 Hoppy Easter After posting a photo on social media of two young rabbits ‘mowing’ my lawn last week, with the caption “Increasing […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 2nd April 2022 Gym Scene Please indulge me in making this week’s column a little more ‘Gym Scene’ than ‘Green Scene’.  On Tuesday I […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 26th March 2022 Our Food 1200 At a time when it is becoming even more important to be able to grow at least some […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail 19th March 2022 Young Perennial I first interviewed Huw Richards at Chelsea Flower Show.  He endeared himself to me straight away by saying, “I’ve […]