Go Dutch!
Wonderful photographs!
Gardens and plants are so photographic, and here is the proof of it! I so often say, “a photograph is better than a thousand words”. When I am...
A Family Christmas outing to the Courtauld Gallery, London
These two paintings date from 1873 and 1874, when Renoir was just 32 years old. In a gallery full of wonderful paintings, they just knock you over....
Now is the moment!
Not a day to lose, October is bulb planting time and also November! The choice is extraordinary. You can have the most amazing colours of disco...
The BBOWT Environmental Educational Garden
The task was to bring new life to the BBOWT Environmental Education Centre at Sutton Courteney, on land leased from Didcot Power Station. BBOWT is...
Setting the scene, a stage set
The whole world is a play! When you get an entrance right like any of these, with such a strong sense of invitation, one is drawn in. Even the dark...
Lookout! New website
Here is the wonderful Emma DeBanks! who has pulled it all together and it was quite a pull! Without her, it wouldn’t have been possible. Micky...
No problem!
This wonderful tree nursery in north Germany moves huge trees as if they were saplings. Everything is possible, and you can see from the second...
Water Lilies
Here I am looking small and insignificant in front of one of Monet’s enormous canvases in their gallery in Paris. The two close up photographs show...
Finding English oak planks
In deepest Wiltshire, looking for two top rails for a pair of important oak gates, where the grain hopefully would follow the curve of an old...
Seasonal Posts
Now is the moment!
Not a day to lose, October is bulb planting time and also November! The choice is extraordinary. You can have the most amazing colours of disco lights and fireworks from January to July! In the garden, pots, lawns, woodland, house, roadside, anywhere! Bulbs and corms...
Colour, colour, colour!
A visit to the old Tate a few days ago, found us standing in front of so many wonderful paintings by Turner. I still haven't recovered and don't want to! The beauty, the delicacy, the skill, the insight and intelligence and the passion of his use of colour and what he...
Light is the magic!
This was the High Street in Oxford this morning, Wednesday. Yesterday was grey and raining, and tomorrow is forecast grey and raining. But today, the light is fantastic, a blue sky, you can see detail which is just not there at all in the so often grey. This is...
Feathery Friends
In one garden, hundreds of pounds have been spent on bird feeders, seeds and nesting boxes. And a bath. The garden now offers six star luxury full board accommodation to a host of feathery friends, including migratory visitors in the spring. The spirit of a garden is...
Tulipes Contre Le Cancer (Tulips against Cancer)
Whilst many tulip (and other spring flowering) bulbs are being planted in clients gardens, this wonderful charity will also be planting fields and fields of them in locations across France and Belgium. The fields are then opened in April and May for visitors to pick...
Urban Greening
As my usual tube station at Marylebone was closed, I alighted at Edgware Road. What a welcome discovery this magnificent living green wall was, particularly as it is sited right beside the pretty hostile A40 flyover. New research continues to conclude that green walls...
