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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Dolly Parton meets Lutyens? Roy Strong does not meet us.

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 Funny business, acting as a tour guide in your own locality (The Welsh Borders), driving around in a big coach, in places that are really f...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

“Grrrt lush!” – exotic fruit in the west of England.

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            Peaches and apricots at 52 degrees north and 167m (547ft) in the English/Welsh borders is pretty good going. Nothing to do...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

A kindred spirit

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Ton ter Linden is famous for his garden-making in Holland, and for his art - mostly still-lifes. Time spent weeding or planting is a...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Historic Andrew Chatto archives now published online!

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Dry meadow above Mikulov in Czech Republic, on a rather grey day last autumn. Knowledge of what grows in rather difficult places like...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The sun may have (thankfully) set on the British Empire but not on its most successful invention.

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It is often said that a lawn makes a good foreground but German garden designer Petra Pelz has got other ideas. A recent post by...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sheffield - city of flowers?

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  Sheffield. Once 'steel city', then 'The People's Republic of South Yorkshire', now just another post-industrial regene...
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Friday, July 1, 2011

The 'Special Relationship'

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About a month ago the leading flag on the ‘flag counter’ on my blog finally tipped from the Union Jack to the Stars and Stripes. So perhaps...