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A Festival in ‘our’ Garden – The Wealden Literary Festival
Get creative and win tickets to the first Wealden Literary Festival Kent photographers and writers of all ages are…
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Tulips and Tortoises
It’s joyful tulip time, tumbling over each other as they draw every little bit of attention in the room…
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An ode to Allotmenteers
Hello allotment, it feels like it’s been a long time… What’s that? Oh right, yes it has. But hurrah, it’s…
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How to be Capable (ity Brown)
I’ve been thinking about Lancelot (Capability) Brown for probably far too long. Here’s a post I wrote about visiting his birthplace,…
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Chatto-ing to myself in the rain… at Beth Chatto’s Garden
It was never going to be possible for me to visit Colchester and not fit in a trip to Beth…
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Eel Art in the Public Garden
This is probably one of the best known views in Britain, the Octagon tower at Ely Cathedral. It’s got special…
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Wearing the garden
Of course dressing yourself in the garden isn’t new. Chelsea Flower Show hairdo anyone? But I’ve fallen in love with…
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How a garden led to a family Christmas…
I’m lucky enough to be involved with the charity, Blackthorn Trust, in Maidstone. It’s a garden, a cafe, a bakery,…
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Hidden in central London, a garden for peace and reconciliation
Although I was looking out for the St Ethelburga’s Garden for Peace and Reconcialition, even so, walking down busy Bishopsgate, I…
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A sprig of jasmine in a water bottle – a walk round Scicli Cemetery
The gardens I remember the most aren’t always where I expect to find them. On our holiday in Sicily last week, we…
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Trails, tea and Tofino
You know those guided meditations which start, ‘imagine yourself in a beautiful place in nature…’? Well, ever since I’ve visited…
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If you have a garden and a library,
… you have everything you need. So said Cicero, and so, it seems, the Carnegie Library in London… I…
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Catching a healthy dose of Pteridomania in Canada
It was a real treat to meet one of my favourite gardeners (and friends) when I was in Canada recently.…
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Joining the Blackthorn Garden community
I am so pleased to say that I’ve just been appointed as a Trustee for the Blackthorn Trust. This…
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Sowing poetry seeds in two very different gardens
Over the last month, I’ve ‘appeared’ in two very different gardens… Just last week, I was lucky enough to read…
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Happy birthday, Digging Up Paradise!
Hard to believe that my little book is a year old now. Especially as it’s out there walking and making…
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A little wander round RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015
An invitation to Press Day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is definitely one of the most amazing things about…
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Cauliflower cheese with Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens isn’t an author I normally associate with writing about gardens. The grimy back streets around Covent Garden might…
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A Little Chaos – the fictional dream
Imagine the excitement in the Writer in the Garden household this weekend: There’s a film about proper gardening. Even Tim…
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Why this bench made me cry…
I’ve decided to move my bench posts from my old website, A Quiet Sit Down to here as, to be…
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It is here now! It has come, the Spring! Dickon says so!
Writer in the garden, pah! Bricklayer in the garden more like… or at least for three bricks! Inevitably having a…
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Painting Paradise, and sneaking looks at Buckingham Palace garden through bars….
Now, Writer in the Garden hasn’t been getting out as much as she’d like recently, but when she does, she…
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Writer in the Flower Shop
How to wire an orchid The weakest part is the throat, submerge head then pull up by the stem and…