Birdland Cottage – Gardens for Life

Next season at Birdland Cottage

One more month and the gardening season is starting up again at Birdland cottage. First jobs here – tidy nursery and build […]

Making delicious cordial is easy and simple. Elderberries like many other berries make for a great cordial for the winter time when […]

We’re entering this years pallet up-cycling challenge at the Roscommon lamp festival. We have two entries – an insect hotel and a […]

Feeding the birds during cold spells and snow helps them a lot to get through the winter. Please share to encourage others. […]

We’re only midway in the second growing season after mulching and what a transformation it has been. We’ve done almost no maintenance […]

We wish all you gardeners and homesteaders a happy and abundant new year for 2018! Upon reflecting on 2017 gone by, we […]

It’s always exciting to discover new forms of wildlife in our gardens and we’ve been looking forward to this day. Today the […]

Once upon a time when we were looking for a place of our own, our friends said to us – no matter […]