I love plants which self seed. It’s like inviting Mrs Serendipity to your garden. Self-seeding is not for those who […]
Archive for ‘Cotswolds’
Friday Flora – Papaver rhoeas, the field poppy
I have been doing a lot of gardening recently. Gardening is normally pretty high on the agenda but in June […]
Friday Flora – Fritillaria meleagris
I once caught the meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, at exactly the right time. Thousands upon thousands of Fritillaria meleagris […]
Snow It All – the reluctant galanthophile
I love plants. I love all plants (except the ones which bite me). Call me a whining liberal, but I […]
Diamonds and Doomed Pixies
Wednesday morning dawned, as forecast, dazzlingly clear and fiercely frosty. The garden was frozen solid and so I reasoned that there […]
Chipping Campden Open Gardens 2016
Chipping Campden is a large village/small town quilted into the Cotswolds like a button on an overstuffed Victorian chair and like all […]
Friday Flora – Cow Parsley and Salt
In recent weeks I’ve been driving about with my mouth open. The hedgerows have been fantastic, overflowing with cow parsley […]
Snowshill, snooping and snipping
I live in the shadow of the Cotswolds, and much as I’d love to have a dinky little Cotswold stone […]
Life’s a Beech
We live in the Cotswolds, or rather in a Cotswolds town. We like walking, but we don’t go nearly frequently […]
Take me to church
The weather has been glorious as summer drains away and though my camera and I have been busy I’ve been a […]
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