As we cross the threshold of another year I’m thinking about front doors. Keeping on top of home gardening tasks […]
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Happy Waitangi Day – on the sunny side of the world
I started writing this post on 6th February, on a grey, damp and dingy Monday. Like many of my compatriots, […]
Friday Flora – Sorbus aucuparia
I’ve just been on a big northern road trip with my mother and my sister. We drove uphill (well it […]
Friday Flora – Protea laurifolia
It’s going to be a little while ’til I can blog properly about Tresco, so here’s one more Tresco treasure. […]
Friday Flora – Araucaria heterophylla
Today I am thinking about a tree I nearly had. Or at least I had a little one in a […]
Arisaig, Part II – Borrowed Landscapes
It’s not hard to spot a large Victorian garden – a few towering American conifers from that golden era of […]
Arisaig, Part I: Big, Big Train*
We’ve just been to Scotland for the first time for years. West coast – just beneath Skye, a long, long […]
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 […]
Bright, brighter, Brightlingsea
I went Out East last week. Thompson and Morgan invited me to one of the press days at their new […]
Crete: Cats and Containers
June. Peak activity time in British gardens, both for working (especially if you use bedding plants and half-hardies) and for […]
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