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Friday Flora – Tulipa sylvestris

Friday Flora – Tulipa sylvestris

I first realised quite how beautiful Tulipa sylvestris was this time last year when I saw it planted in the […]

April 15, 2016 0 4
Friday Flora

Friday Flora

My camera comes with me almost everywhere, it has almost replaced notebooks now. I thought perhaps I’d try to post a […]

April 8, 2016 4 7
Snowshill, snooping and snipping

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 […]

March 18, 2016 9 3
Beaches – in which I try to ignore wintry greyness

Beaches – in which I try to ignore wintry greyness

As I write, a fierce gusty wind is howling into the crevices of our house and sleet is spattering against […]

March 3, 2016 6 3
Silver and Gold – a quick raid on Batsford Arboretum

Silver and Gold – a quick raid on Batsford Arboretum

We’ve been waiting for winter with bated breath. Insanely mild temperatures have tempted flowers and shoots out, causing horticultural pessimists […]

January 21, 2016 7 6
Gardening at The Park

Gardening at The Park

A couple of cheeky people have asked me recently if I’m enjoying my retirement. I’m not THAT old. Anyway by […]

January 14, 2016 10 3
24 chocolates in one go – a review of 2015

24 chocolates in one go – a review of 2015

Every year I do a pictorial Advent Calendar online – here are the 24 images I’ve been dropping one by […]

December 24, 2015 10 6
Summer by the Back Door

Summer by the Back Door

Nobody except the postman and occasional Jehovah’s Witnesses uses our front door. Everyone comes round to the back and rings on […]

November 27, 2015 11 10
Life’s a Beech

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 […]

November 1, 2015 16 3
Take me to church

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 […]

October 15, 2015 11 1

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Ex-Head Gardener at Whichford Pottery, now free range gardener, speaker, writer. Gardening is my focus, but I may stray into natural history, rural matters, travel, art... We'll see!

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  • Off The Edge Gardening
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  • Pettifers Garden Blog
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  • The Anxious Gardener
  • The Blackberry Garden
  • The Frustrated Gardener
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Cakey cakey! The Begonia 'Apricot Shades' petals are tasty too.
Cakey cakey! The Begonia ‘Apricot Shades’ petals are tasty too.
Cosmos 'Cupcakes'. The bees like this one too.
Cosmos ‘Cupcakes’. The bees like this one too.
Escholzia 'Copper Swirls'
Escholzia ‘Copper Swirls’
T&M's show garden at Jimmy's Farm
T&M’s show garden at Jimmy’s Farm
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Cheadle Hulme chilling. NB Owl and Pussycat at bottom left of photo
Cheadle Hulme chilling. NB Owl and Pussycat at bottom left of photo
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Day of the Dahlia
Day of the Dahlia
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Kamares ware, 1800-1700 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Kamares ware, 1800-1700 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Victorian Violas
Victorian Violas
Yewbiquitous. Lurking in the Rich Brothers' Cloudy Bay Garden
Yewbiquitous. Lurking in the Rich Brothers’ Cloudy Bay Garden
Meconopsis 'Barney's Blue' on the Harperley Hall stand
Meconopsis ‘Barney’s Blue’ on the Harperley Hall stand
Floral headdress by Okishima and Simmonds at the Hillier stand. Perhaps I should concoct something similar.
Floral headdress by Okishima and Simmonds at the Hillier stand. Perhaps I should concoct something similar.
Their smiles never faltered. Give them a medal!
Their smiles never faltered. Give them a medal!
Stomping on Adam Frost's garden.
Stomping on Adam Frost’s garden.
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In the Pyrenees - no serious botanising for me, unfortunately
In the Pyrenees – no serious botanising for me, unfortunately
In the alpine house at RHS Wisley
In the alpine house at RHS Wisley
Spring plantings at Whichford Pottery
Spring plantings at Whichford Pottery
Early summer explosions at Rousham
Early summer explosions at Rousham
Smart greenhouse and enviable coldframes
Smart greenhouse and enviable coldframes
Into the kitchen garden
Into the kitchen garden
The way through the massive yew hedge
The way through the massive yew hedge
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Gladiator dying of boredom. Somebody give him a book!
Gladiator dying of boredom. Somebody give him a book!
Cosmos 'Sweet Sixteen' Sow Cosmos and you'll hardly have time to make a cup of tea before they germinate.
Cosmos ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Sow Cosmos and you’ll hardly have time to make a cup of tea before they germinate.
Shreds of habitat - too many are being tidied away. Barn owls like tussocky grass because voles do too.
Shreds of habitat – too many are being tidied away. Barn owls like tussocky grass because voles do too.
Burnet moth on knapweed/Zygaena filipendulae on Centaurea nigra
Burnet moth on knapweed/Zygaena filipendulae on Centaurea nigra
The Walled Nursery
The Walled Nursery
My beloved
My beloved
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Bruce Munro installation at Waddesdon
Statues at Waddesdon wrapped up for winter
Statues at Waddesdon wrapped up for winter
Ridge and furrow in the Cotswolds
Ridge and furrow in the Cotswolds. At its best in winter light.
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With my mother, who seems to be examining a rotten branch
With my mother, who seems to be examining a rotten branch
Tin chapel
Tin chapel
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Macaws, noisy and hilarious, but maybe not ideal house pets
Macaws, noisy and hilarious, but maybe not ideal house pets
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