Articles by Lynne Allbutt

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 10th March 2018   Poor Man’s Nitrogen Funny old stuff, snow; creeps in quietly, changes everything and then just slopes off.  It has certainly slowed gardeners […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 3rd March 2018   Whose Coat is that Jacket? I don’t need to tell you that the weather has been brutal this week – especially for […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 24th February 2018   Raw Worx! I am a great believer in ‘food as fuel’, and therefore if you but rubbish in then you get a […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 17th February 2018   Paws Please! I was mortified to hear that a deadly dog disease has spread further into Wales after two new cases were […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 10th February 2018   Pitch Perfect I love my job – even at the most prestigious dinner parties, conversations will always come around to some aspect […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 3rd February 2018   One day, Life Will Stack Up About ten years ago, put under pressure from a well-meaning friend, I came out … as […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 27th January 2018   Lighten up! I have spotted my very first flowering daffodils of the year – in Crickhowell.  Near the allotments, these early, optimistic […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 20th January 2018   Watch the Birdie The annual Big Garden Birdwatch takes place again at the end of the month. Organised by the RSPB, the […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 13th January 2018  Rose to the Challenge One of the lovely things about the new year is finding seed catalogues amongst the bills on the […]

Taken from Lynne’s weekly column ‘Green Scene’ for the Western Mail. 6th January 2018  Happy New Year to you all; I love a friend’s new year’s advice, “Take last year’s resolution, reword it, yell ‘Plot Twist’, […]