Shade v. shadow
Yesterday I ran into Pamela, our next door neighbour with the paved garden, and in...
Confined to barracks
Gardens have multiple uses and value, not least being as a kind of tableau simply...
The Naming of Plants
In an earlier blog, I commented on the tendency to name plants after the donor, thus...
Greys Court Garden
Yesterday was a non event kind of day, with grey skies, a little rain, and limited...
Summer's lease
I see that my last blog celebrated the arrival of summer. Well, as the Bard said,...
Summer at last?
June 3rd was a perfect June day. In fact, June is probably the best month for gardens...
Trading
When I was an undergraduate studying anthropology, we spent some time on the neolithic,...
Foliage
In my parents' garden, and in most others at the time, the stress was on flowers...
