I had a delightful afternoon visiting Noel Kingsbury and Jo Eliot’s garden in deepest darkest Herefordshire within spitting distance of the Welsh borders. I nearly didn’t go as I wanted to get on with the front garden but having planted up half the space in the morning and with unexpected blue skies at lunchtime I…
Category: visiting garden
Of Trilliums and other shady things
Today I went to the inaugural meeting of the HPS Shade and Woodland Group which conveniently for me was held near Tewkesbury where I go for my monthly HPS meetings and in addition to this the talk was by one of our committee members, Keith Ferguson with a visit in the afternoon to his and…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth
I have struggled with this week’s photo challenge theme: depth. So I have decided to choose some images that show a depth of field, the depth of the garden so to speak. This photos were taken at Wollerton Old Hall in Shropshire in 2012. A garden I must visit again as I have found looking…
‘England’s Greatest Snowdrop Garden’
When I tell people that I am going to look at snowdrops they often look at me quizzically -” surely a snowdrop is a snowdrop is a snowdrop” they say. “What’s the fuss, they are just pretty small white flowers?” And so it may seem until you start to look beyond the blanket of the…
Book Review: Secret Gardens of The Cotswolds
I am lucky to frequently receive books from Frances Lincoln to review but I have to admit that I was thrilled to be asked to review Secret Gardens of The Cotswolds written by my friend Victoria Summerley. I did tell Victoria some time ago when we were discussing her book that I wasn’t going to…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Shadowed
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Shadowed. I have toyed with the obvious ideas of shadows but instead have gone for a feeling of being shadowed from the heat of the day. These photos were taken in July on the Isola Madre in Lake Maggiore in Italy. The island is a botanic garden full…
