Did we get this right?
This is the before picture – with a tentative cut where we thought we might do it. (thanks Jeff!) The block on the left had always seemed too – well, blocky. Heavy and out of scale. So, much discussion and contemplating. Today Charles went and did...
The dubious worth of garden writers’ opinions?
Stephen Lacey was possibly a bit of an idiot to put the Laskett in his recent Telegraph piece about the best garden makers? See these opinions elsewhere. I’m sorry to be exampling the Laskett again – it’s simply that there are not many gardens that...
Cleavers
I do wonder as I’m pulling out streamers of cleavers ( Cleavers, Clivers, Goosegrass, Stickywilly, Stickywillow, Stickyjack, Stickyleaf, Catchweed, Robin-run-the-hedge, Coachweed, Bedstraw) which break off as I pull – would I do better to be patient, let...
Fashion or taste?
Yesterday a garden visitor asked me what I was intending to cover my black pergola with. I felt mildly shocked – I love it just as it is. He seemed equally shocked that I would permit unadorned black wood in my garden. I wondered why he picked on that? However,...
Anne Wareham’s Garden Blog
All right – I have given in and here is my garden blog. I keep wanting to write shorter pieces than could find a home anywhere in the printed media, so it does in the end seem obvious.. And, as someone pointed out recently – it’s a form of social media. A conversation...
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Otherworldly Gardens by Mary Keen
“The question to ask is, ‘what is here that is true, that is underneath the superficial things? What is here that matters?”
Autobiography of a Garden by Patterson Webster: a review
Autobiography of a Garden is about the garden making, Pat’s life, the history of the land, the ideas, the art, the plants and the devouring deer.
Garden regionally, get inspired globally by Marianne Willburn
But to dream, and perhaps more importantly, to innovate, we should inspire ourselves globally:
Chelsea or Chaumont? by Catharine Howard
“Have issue. You were so adamant that you wouldn’t go to Chelsea again. Discuss, please”.
Gifting the Ephemeral
. And now, knowing we won’t live forever, we’re thinking about what will happen to the house and garden when we die.
Hadspen aka The Newt in Somerset, by Anne Wareham
The garden is actually interestingly old fashioned. It’s not just the bedding but the relentless inclusion of every garden cliché, however brilliantly executed.
Politicising Plants
I don’t imagine you expected the world of horticulture and gardens to escape the decolonising agenda. But if you have concerns …
Tradition
“Maintaining tradition is only really helpful when the result is positive…”
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