Hello everyone! How has your gardening week been? I am writing this from the other end of the country: I have run away to Newcastle upon Tyne. Just for a weekend – I wouldn’t abandon my garden for long, after all – but I have dropped in to see my daughter’s graduation art exhibition, and to have a little wander around a very fine city.

I’m afraid I can’t bring you pictures of the art installation, much as I’d like to, as it was all in the dark – but it was a beautiful, mesmerising film which set out to capture the essence of the Welsh temperate rainforests we both went to visit a few months ago. You may remember I wrote about it at the time: it was an inspiring and thought-provoking trip.

There were sculptures made of ferns (many of them dug out of my garden, where they self-seed like crazy) hung from the ceiling: they clambered over the floor, and threw their ferny shadows up onto the walls.

I came away feeling very proud, and re-inspired by those magnificent forests, so diminished yet still so powerful. If you’re in the Newcastle area, you can see it for yourself: the exhibition is on until 17 June at the Hatton Gallery.

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