Category: Kent
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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 pulses through flower veins to the sticky sweet nest, dripping through fur as drones search on mouths open hungry for nectar My friend (and sometimes artistic collaborator) Ellen Montelius let me spend an afternoon with…
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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* when the sun was still shining and the flowers blooming… Now, doesn’t that make you feel better? And there’s still time for you to visit Finchcocks this year as it is open until the end…
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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 was lucky enough to get to walk round Knole Gardens (different from the park and only open on Tuesdays) with a five year old girl. She very kindly took the photographs for this post for…
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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 because they are so often havens of wildlife and nature. However, they DO have to contain something man made (apart from bones, of course) and the Churchyard at Tudeley is special because of the turf…
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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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Five Woodland Walks
1. Every Sunday afternoon the family goes to the woods. ‘But doesn’t Mum want to come?’ It seems not. Besides she’d spoil the fun by getting nervous as you balance like an underage drunk, a tightrope walker tottering along fallen tree trunks to collect that coin Dad puts out to tempt you on to the…