Ah, who’d be fashionable? Or classy? Someone else with a new garden which has prompted reflections. Anne Wareham, editor Away From It All by Debbie Wilson Having only ever had back gardens, I suddenly found myself with six acres. Five acres of that is a field and 15-year-old young woodland, the…
via What does ‘wild’ actually mean? by Debbie Wilson — thinkinGardens
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…
Crocus speciosus M. Bieb. Sarah Anne Drake (1803–1857) A Briefe Epitome Katarzyna Lecky Unlike many large botanical herbals, which boasted elaborate frontispieces and pages filled with engraved plates of flora, whose size and preciousness made them objects to be admired and treasured, pocket herbals were everyday objects printed cheaply and scribbled in extensively by all sorts […]
The pack wakes up well rested in the cabin’s common sleeping area. Some of the kids have never been away from home overnight, or went to bed without a tuck in from mom, or dad. Now after a good night’s sleep we’re gearing up for the first full day of our most excellent Camp Harris […]
One of our neighbours has just completed extension work on his house and asked us if we wanted any of his leftover bricks; he now knows to give us first refusal on any excess building material because invariably we will manage to make use of it. The current offer turned out to be a very […]
We have visited “John’s Garden” before in the height of summer and really enjoyed it, so much so that we were determined to re-visit at different times of the year. We imagined it would be an effective all-year garden. Mid-February and John opened his garden on a cold and wet winters day, so we went […]
via A canal-side garden in winter – John’s Garden Part 1 — greenbenchramblings
Every Portuguese kid learns that Sagres is the place “where land ends and the sea begins.” It was here that Henry the Navigator launched the voyages that led to the discovery of new worlds. The Sagres pousada has a spectacular location on a cliff that overlooks the fort built by Henry the Navigator in the […]
via Imagining new worlds at the Sagres pousada — Salt of Portugal
Why did nobody ever tell me that a doctor handing me a packet of pills was never actually going to make me better? Of course it would help, but I needed to have a complete rethink on the way that I was living my life, and in order to do that, I had to want […]
via 58. Short Term Pain, Long Term Gain … — How I Killed Betty!
To say that El Greco, painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, is an important figure in art history is an understatement. The artist, who was born in 1541 and died in 1614, made huge artistic contributions to the world and even challenged Michelangelo’s work. Below you will find 5 fun facts about El…
via 5 Fun Facts About Spanish Renaissance Artist El Greco — Outside The Lines
The Freshwater Habitats Trust are asking people to record the locations of frog and toad spawn through their PondNet Spawn Survey 2018. The Trust are looking to build a national picture of where there are breeding populations and so help identify water bodies important for biodiversity. We’re into the breeding season now – even through […]
via Looking for tadpoles — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
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