Valley Creations covers the interests of Steve Scott and Ruth Love. There is information here on gardening, painting, drawing, sculpture, family and social history, cooking, carpentry, chair making and green woodwork. Steve sometimes takes tours round the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and helped look after the local cycle paths for Sustrans, the national cycle network charity. Ruth is very interested in social justice and volunteers for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust at Stirley Farm and the RSPB in various places. She is active in the Green Party and was a member of Hexadaisy Morris Side.
Latest Garden Post:
- What a Day
We woke up late this morning and opened the curtains to a really miserable day. Not looking like a day for the planned gardening. As we sat in bed drinking tea, the rain started to clear and a strange light appeared down in the valley. Slowly it spread up into the sky and, equally slowly, turned from a vague streak of colour into a bright rainbow.
As the rain moved away the rainbow faded again and then finally disappeared. The sky turned blue and gardening looked possible.
Later Simon, who helps us look after this hilly wonder nowadays, turned up and the three of us set off clearing, planting, pruning and cutting down, now that the leaves have gone. The rain kept coming and going but not enough to stop us.
We had a really productive day, from the top right down to the bottom of the garden. Holes in the laid hedged were filled, brambles cleared, redundant, rampaging wild roses removed, perennials planted, the garden produced, garden pole stock renewed and a spot the difference created in one corner of the top area, where a maple needed its yearly trim and an old ailing cherry tree needed to come down to make room for more planting. Now I need to decide what to carve the cherry stump into.
