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Week 1 of Writing in the Garden – a free creative writing exercise
Hello! I had such a lovely response to my recent article in the RHS Garden magazine on reading and writing…
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A Trip to Tropical Tresco
See whatttttt I did there? We’ve just come back from the Isles of Scilly, it was the perfect holiday but…
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Ready for your close up?
God but flowers are amazing. How are we not worshipping them daily? All these were taken today at Great Dixter…
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Why gardeners should read (and write) poetry
It was Cicero who said that if you have a garden and a library you want for nothing, and I’m…
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The News From the Garden
is earthshattering, a blackbird’s made its nest in the hawthorn tree, and breaking as I write, seedlings planted a month…
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A garden poem for meditation – walking in Stand Wood above Chatsworth House
We were too early to get into Chatsworth House so walked up to the Hunting Tower in Stand Wood while…
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What do you do with all your garden guides?
We went on a ‘grand tour’ of the Peak District and Yorkshire last week – only one garden a day…
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Gods, jade and sulphur – the Diamond Falls Botanical Gardens in St Lucia
Looking out at grey skies today, it’s a joy to go back through posts from just a month ago and…
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Snowdrops rising like lanterns
Winter Garden by Sarah Salway Like the pilgrim divests himself of worldly goods, the garden’s stripped back to a…
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Remembering Capability Brown – Lady Nature’s Second Husband – and a little bit of Compton Verney
The English landscape gardener, Lancelot (Capability) Brown died 236 years ago today, 6th February 1783 – and fittingly is remembered…
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Silence in the nature reserve
And a happy new year to you all! I think it’s still all right to say that, but this has…
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Ernest Wilson – keeping one eye open
There’s a little gate off the main street in Chipping Camden. You might not even notice it, but step inside,…
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Poor Susan and the sounds of the city
This week I was lucky enough to go on a guided walk around the city of London with Rosie from…
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Revisiting Salutation Gardens, Sandwich
Although I’m slightly horrified to realise that it’s SIX YEARS since I first wrote about The Salutation Gardens in Sandwich,…
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A visit to The Library of the Birds of London
The complete joy of hearing birdsong again is making up for a stop-start spring this year. And thinking about birds,…
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Always the two sides….
On this rainy Easter weekend we went walking in Kent, and came across this lovely rural scene of a church…
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On the anniversary of Lancelot Brown’s death
Lancelot – Capability – Brown is best known as the creator of our current vision of the English landscape, so…
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Gardens. Matters of life and love. And other trivia
As soon as I knew there was a Beguinage at Antwerp, I had to visit it. I’ve been obsessed with…
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The last tree…
One of the highlights of the last summer was a trip to the Gothenburg Botanical Garden. There was so much…
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Papermaking in the garden
Back in the summer (remember that far back, when the sun shone and everything?), I went on a day papermaking…
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Doing better in 2018
While this has mostly been a happy year for me full of garden visits, gardens and weddings, it has also…
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The moon in our pocket – or why we need Lia Leendertz’s Almanac today
Lia Leendertz is one of my favourite writers – and her latest project is so important right now as nature…
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Not just a tree – John Evelyn’s Mulberry in Deptford
We spent the day in Deptford recently, taking photographs of various street names for a family project, but I also…
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Halfway to Heaven in Folkestone
Not quite a garden, but this website has done graveyards before so we’ve got form. And besides, this is amazing.…