A Moment of Drought
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Some things are just not meant to be. I set off, already late, to visit Eltham Palace. Once the home of the Courtaulds this […]
Plants
A Summer Stroll to Hampstead
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For the first time this year, London swelters under hot sunny skies. We took a walk from our home in Highgate across the Heath […]
Gold Medal Gardens – Southern Hemisphere
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Visitors to the Olympic park via the bustling Stratford entrance were for two weeks greeted by the showiest of the London 2012 gardens, representing […]
A Touch of Ginger
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Bringing a touch of the tropics to our garden this summer are two members of the ginger family – Hedychium densiflorum “Stephen” and Cautleya […]
Gold Medal Gardens – North America
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As the “Golden Games” draw to a close there is a sense of great pride and celebration in the UK. We have diving and […]
Busy Doing Nothing
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Unlike my week, which is packed to say the least, the weekend was one of those rare and precious occasions on which there was […]
Handsome Hollyhocks
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It’s been a great year for hollyhocks. I can’t remember seeing them look quite so good, bursting out of the ground like Roman candles […]
Butterflies in Birchington – Quex Park, Kent
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As is so often the case, the things that are on your own doorstep are the first to be overlooked. And so, somehow, we […]
The Rise and Fall of Phormiums
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Walking home from work today, I passed a miserable looking clump of variegated phormiums in front of a drab public building. They were ill […]
Very British Bouquets
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What a day for Team GB’s athletes! 2 golds and now 11th in the medals table. Hopefully this is just the start. Whilst I […]
Shades of Summer
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We have been away from our seaside garden for two full weeks. This always makes me uneasy, especially when the weather is warm […]
London 2012 – The Opening Ceremony
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By amazing chance we are back in Stratford again, but this time for the real opening ceremony. The atmosphere is already incredible. The world […]