I’ve been thinking about gardening a lot lately. I’ve been actually gardening a lot too. This is our fourth summer here and the garden is really only just starting to take shape, and I’m only just starting to take shape as a gardener, albeit a very, very amateur one. Read the rest of this entry »
We visited Eltham Palace the other weekend. Half Tudor hall, half extravagant Art Deco home, surrounded by a moat and beautiful gardens, it is a wonderfully beautiful, odd and unlikely oasis in London. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve been in our current place for a couple of years now and the garden has been something of an on/off project. There has been the enthusiasms of springs, of clearing and planning and planting, followed by the troubles of summer, as the temperature rises and the watering slackens. Then the forgetting to clear and prune in the autumn, then the actual clearing and pruning in winter, then spring again. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year 