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A garden frozen in time …
I open the back door, step outside, and pause, drinking in the air which always smells and feels so fresh. I look to the right, past the terrace, to the steep bank beyond the pool admiring the pencil cypresses which have grown so tall so quickly. I set off on my customary walk around the garden, following my normal route, past the crab apples, up… Read more Continue reading A garden frozen in time …
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Time for an update
Even I am shocked by how long it is since I blogged, not since our open garden day in 2024. I know you’ll forgive me. So much has happened in the last couple of years, some of which I’ve already written about here and elsewhere. Someone very important (more later) mentioned today in an email that they’d looked at my blog. So I realised it… Read more Continue reading Time for an update
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Open garden : Jardin ouvert
For many years we’ve enjoyed visiting NGS (National Garden Scheme) gardens in the UK. There’s a certain rhythm to a visit: notice a window in the diary, open the NGS app, search for gardens, reject gardens that we’ve visited before (unless they’re very special and need to be revisited) identify one that’s not too far away, drive to it in eager anticipation, take a long… Read more Continue reading Open garden : Jardin ouvert
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A quick November early morning walk around the garden
I was drawn out into the garden early this morning by the light. The rising sun illuminated the remaining leaves on the five huge plane trees by the gate, highlighting the autumn golds, reds, and yellows of these amazing trees, which almost certainly date back to Napoleonic times. And a closer view And, of course, with light like that I couldn’t help being drawn further… Read more Continue reading A quick November early morning walk around the garden
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