If it’s July it must be Hampton Court. RHS Hampton Court Show is a big site, with a wide variety […]
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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 – Abutilon vitifolium var. album
I struck a cutting from a friend’s Abutilon vitifolium var. album about ten years ago. Once it was a decent […]
A garden full of sculptures for Oxfordshire Artweek
On Bank Holiday Monday Chris and I went to the last day of “Sculpture at Kingham Lodge” in the nearby […]
What about the workers? RHS Chelsea Flower Show Build-Up
The first time I “did Chelsea”, I think it was 2001 and I was very new to my job at […]
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 […]
Friday Flora
My camera comes with me almost everywhere, it has almost replaced notebooks now. I thought perhaps I’d try to post a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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