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Ruins and personality at Great Comp
Great Comp garden, near Sevenoaks in Kent, is a remarkably personal garden, wrapped round a 17th century house. Dotted around…
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Sculpture, sun-tattoos and the ‘art garden’ – Marle Place
This may well be the quickest garden-visit-to-post on here because I was in Marle Place gardens just this afternoon. And…
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Beekeeper in the Garden
And inside the hive a baby soothed by the whir of wings as fragile as honesty leaves, how warm honey…
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The Homewood – ‘temple of costly experience’
It’s impossible to talk about the garden of The Homewood without referencing the house. (And the house without referencing the…
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Finchcocks – A Musical Garden
It’s grey and dreary here today so I make no apologies for writing about a garden I visited last summer*…
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Tortoises and tulips in Istanbul
We didn’t do many garden-visits during our recent – short – visit to Istanbul, but then in some ways the…
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“Temptation whispers from the window” – A visit to Virginia Woolf’s garden at Monk’s House
“You must come and sit there on the lawn with me, or stroll in the apple orchard, or pick –…
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A visit to Kirkharle – where Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown began
So, the above might not be the picture of a garden you’re expecting from the birthplace of the man who…
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Garden Visiting with a Five Year Old…
As with Tudeley, most of my garden visits are taken either by myself or with other ‘adults’. Yesterday, however, I…
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The Labyrinth at All Saints’ Tudeley, Kent
Churchyards may not be traditional gardens but in the context of this website I believe they can count, not least…
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Greyfriars Garden and Chapel, Canterbury
This must be one of the quietest gardens in Canterbury. Although it’s just off the High Street, it’s hard to…
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Cas Holmes in the Garden
As soon as I saw this beautiful little picture by artist, Cas Holmes, I knew it had to be mine:…
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Becoming the garden
Last week we stayed in a house called Scàl’s Broch, just near Achiltibuie and overlooking the Summer Isles. Although there were…
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Howick Hall Gardens, Northumberland
There’s nothing I like better than a well-made cup of tea – well, actually there are quite a lot of…
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Cragside, Northumberland
The more gardens I visit, the more I appreciate those which have been created with a huge dollop of personality.…
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Bishops Palace Garden, Chichester
I don’t know how many visitors to Chichester Cathedral know about this oasis tucked away between the Cathedral and the…
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We’re in The English Garden!
Or at least the very beautiful glossy magazine by that name. You can imagine how happy I was to flick through…
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Grass Mounds, Taking Risks and Riots – Spa Fields, Exmouth Market
I’ve been to Exmouth Market several times, but never ventured down this uninviting passage to visit Spa Fields… I’d thought…
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Chelsea Fringe – Cake in the Garden…
Well, I’ve come to the end of (almost) daily posts but haven’t come to the end of all the London…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 16
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 15
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 14
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 13
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 12
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No…