Last week I consulted Facebook friends about a design problem, (thank you, everyone – that was truly helpful) and one thing that emerged and intrigued me was a particular reaction to a feature of the garden we’re currently making. It looks like this – New Cornfield Garden (the name is a long story ..) Water…
The Problem of Looking Stupid Shovel, soil, sweat, is digging a hole as mindless as it looks? Here’s how to look stupid: start digging a hole. Einstein, himself, would look like an idiot while digging a hole. All through history, people have needed holes, and no one has ever looked smart digging one. And no…
via Tweed Jackets: The Answer to Horticulture’s Waning Reputation? by Scott Beuerlein — Garden Rant
An elegant natural experiment in one school with two very different types of playgrounds yields surprising results, questioning common assumptions about play safety.
via What is more dangerous, an adventure playground or a conventional playground? — Rethinking Childhood
When you have worked and worked in your own garden until every inch is perfect, or if it is not yet perfect, but you just need a break from planting and weeding, or you are in need of some inspiration, or if you just love and appreciate exploring well-turned gardens, or if you are looking […]
When Margaret Nettlefold planned the garden at Winterbourne, daughter Valerie revealed that her mother ‘lived with gardening books for a year or so’. Here, the influence of Gertrude Jekyll is inescapable. Winterbourne is filled with Jekyllian detail inspired by her 1899 classic Wood and Garden. Each month, we follow in Margaret’s footsteps to see how the…
I’m quite good at visiting far-flung castles, but for some reason those much closer to home are often overlooked by me in favour of more intimate gardens. However, an invitation to go to Hever Castle to see their daffodils in the company of the head gardener Neil Miller and Mr Daffodil himself, Johnny Walkers, finally…
via Hever Castle & Its Dazzling Daffodils — The Enduring Gardener
This year has flown already. I must say, I’ve struggled to make time to blog, but I have found Instagram (I’m naomi.outofmyshed by the way) very alluring and now have a widget on my blog showing my Instagram images. Using my iPhone, it’s so quick and simple, and for me, it’s a great way to […]
What Ghent is getting right about children, public space and traffic – and what it got wrong.
via The city that got serious about child-friendly urban planning — Rethinking Childhood
My grandmother Cynthia was born in 1921, and has lived within a couple of miles of the same South Derbyshire village for her entire life. She has always been an enthusiastic gardener and continues to tend to her perennials and vegetables to this day, despite losing most of her eyesight to macular degeneration about twenty […]
via The Way We Used To Garden: a conversation with a 96-year-old gardener — Edinburgh Garden Diary
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