My gardening arrangements are a little unusual particularly as I have 24 acres of land at my disposal. A stroll along the track to the garden is probably no different from wandering off to an allotment every day. However, there is a twist in the tail. The vegetable and cottage garden and sit either side […]
Croft Gardener
Man at work
The Head Gardener is a man of many talents and still surprises me with his ability to acquire new skills. The photographs of insects and fungi which often appear in my posts are his work and, although I always acknowledge his contribution when praise is offered, I think he deserves an individual paean of praise. […]
High Society, Low Life and the Menagerie
Ask any gardener designer to describe a garden and you will get the predictable mix of hard and soft landscaping, colour palettes and texture, formal and informal garden rooms and a selection of the latest meaningless buzz words from world of gardening glitterati – tactile, surrealist, matrix, herboretum …………….! As I am feeling particularly waspish […]
Turning Bears into Tigers
“Of necessity, he who pursues a very specialised task will do it best.” Xenophon On a still, warm summer day if you lie in the grass or stick your nose into the herbaceous border you can almost hear the sound of munching. A whole army of insect larvae are chewing their way through the foliage. […]