We took a mother’s Day trip out to this super National Trust Hall and Farm in Cambridgeshire. I loved the parterre with it’s combinations of Box and Euonymous and the Folly tower with some wonderful skeletal trees…
Many place names survive from the early middle ages and from even earlier. The spelling may have changed but the roots are still identifiable. In a lot of cases the names of settlements include a personal name, presumably the most important person – mostly male, but sometimes female*. Other place names describe the location using […]
via Etymological landscapes — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
A few pictures from a recent walk to Bellever Tor and back to Postbridge, Dartmoor. Glorious day, interesting walk, stunning views and fascinating ‘clapper’ bridge at Postbridge.
I’m very pleased to feature, this week and next, two more excellent guest posts, these by Andrew Parnell. They’ll focus on a particular and, in many ways, unremarkable tower block in Tower Hamlets but will also provide much of the wider story of the era’s high-rise and system-building programme. Andrew is a walking tour guide […]
On a trip to Devon recently we stopped off to visit Clevedon, Somerset, which lies on the Bristol Channel and was once a port for the summer steamers that took day trippers across to Wales and other places. The pier was nearly lost in the late 1970’s but a huge community effort has resulted in it’s rebuilding. It’s a gem and the day we visited the veiled sun provided some interesting lighting effects…
picture: Steve Mosley
Back to Thursday, this week at Blickling; it was good to see my fellow volunteers, who haven’t been with for a few weeks…so there was much catching up of news as you might imagine.
Norfolk Pete, Jane and I set about lifting the bed of Penstemons that had been slotted in here last autumn. We transported them over to the potting shed where other volunteers and gardener Rebecca were trimming them, potting them up and planting cuttings to propagate.
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When traveling I always try to find flower shops and flower stands to take a photo. It is wonderful to see how people from different countries put flowers on display, the places where you can buy flowers, what do the bouquets look like, how much do they cost? In Oslo a bunch of us,colleagues […]
Over the years, PlayGroundology has received lots of wonderful comments from readers and play enthusiasts around the world. It is a real pleasure to think that in some small ways the blog is helping to inspire people to advocate for a greater variety of public play spaces for kids. Today, a comment arrived from Hong […]
Good gardeners learn to time their work according to the seasons, but when do the seasons begin and end? There are different ways to divide up a year into seasons, changing when each actual season starts. Seasons can be meteorological or more traditionally astronomical, so which is which and how do you convert between the […]
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