Month: March 2013
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The Road Not Taken
One summer about five years ago, the council changed the layout of paths in my local park. Perhaps cowed by the fact that they had been so properly laid out and surfaced, we kept to the new paths and changed our normal routes through to town. All of us that is but the daffodils who…
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Creative Writing for Garden Lovers
Visiting gardens for creative inspiration has been one of my greatest pleasures over the last few years, as witnessed by this website! And so I’m really pleased to see this fantastic initiative launched by the You Grow Girl community. The first prompt by Gayla Trail is to write about your first plant – Michelle Chapman has written…
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West Dean, Chichester
The gardens at West Dean have a traditionally English feel to them. But as wide and expansive as they are, particularly when you walk up through the St Roches arboretum to see Edward James’s grave and look back at the house… … it’s impossible not to sense the magic running through this estate. It’s as…