Tag: Garden
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Reading and Writing … at the Chelsea Fringe
I’m delighted to be – virtually – taking part in the exciting Chelsea Fringe Festival this year. I’ll be posting from a selection of London gardens and parks – some well-known, some you may have overlooked – with photographs, a little bit of gossip, and for each one, I want to offer you a poem…
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Villa Gamberaia, Florence
Although Villa Gamberaia is outside Florence (a 30 minute No 10 bus ride from San Marco Square), it has been designed so the view of the city becomes part of the garden itself. It’s a garden that has been much written about, ‘Nowhere else in my recollection have the liquid and solid been blended with…
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Boboli Gardens, Florence
Our second Florence garden was the Boboli Gardens, just behind the Pitti Palace. Originally built for the Medici Family, and constructed on a hill once covered with olive trees and vineyards, it still retains an air of a perfect Italian classic design although apparently… ‘During the brief period of French rule, the Boboli gardens ran…
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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…