I went a bit viral on Twitter this week. Not for a witty remark or a 240 character piece of […]
Tag Archive for ‘birds’
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 […]
Taking a rain check at Chatsworth
Press days at RHS flower shows are always a mixed bag for me. I am inspired and enthused by torrents […]
Wakehurst – walking on a bluebell planet
I’ve known Ed Ikin, head of Landscape and Horticulture for Kew’s country place at Wakehurst, for years in a virtual kind […]
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 […]
Even If We’re Just Planting in the Dark
I fell over in the dark last week. As I crashed to the ground time slowed down, as it always […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Meadows in mind
I have been lying in the long grass recently, even though it was the dead of winter. At Christmas I […]
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