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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Books – Roy Lancaster, East Anglia and other locations
I usually have several books on the go at once and each one has its place. The Bath […]
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 […]
Friday Flora – Fritillaria meleagris
I once caught the meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, at exactly the right time. Thousands upon thousands of Fritillaria meleagris […]
Two Dozen Moments of Pleasure in 2016
How rubbish was 2016 for you? According to most media it was filled with death, destruction and awful politics. Well, […]
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 – Araucaria heterophylla
Today I am thinking about a tree I nearly had. Or at least I had a little one in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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