Not-quite-the-end of the month view: September
Well, heck, I’m only a week late for the End of Month View (hosted, some time ago now, by Helen, …
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Of garden hoses and organisation
At the beginning of this year, I had the biggest rats-nest of garden hoses I have ever accumulated. So enormous …
Avon calling
One of the slightly more unexpected side-effects of my move to Somerset last year has been that I find myself …
September flowers
There are some bad things about September. The light, for one thing: after a summer of shutting in the chickens …
A bit of botanising #2
All that ranting about botanic gardens was by way of introduction: that last post started out meaning to be a …
Wordless Wednesday
Aloe polyphylla
A bit of botanising #1
Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight How many Botanic Gardens do you think there are in the UK? And how …
August flowers
Just as an interlude my witterings about the Isle of Wight (for yes, dear reader: there is more to come): …
OOTS: Bowed, battered, and very nearly beaten
This is, or rather was, one of the more dramatic publicly-maintained council-funded plantings I know: the Victorian cascades at the …
A Tatton takeout
At the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, wandering around soaking up the beautiful, the amusing, the interesting, the eccentric and …
Sally Nex 