Ambivalence about Snowdrops

Well, I’m sorry, but I didn’t have a happy Christmas. We were both full of cough and were quite unwell. I have not recovered, and I find myself quite unable to write anything new. So I dipped into The Bad Tempered Gardener to offer you a piece on those plants which...
Fashion or taste?

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, when...

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Anne Wareham’s Garden Blog

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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Recent articles and reviews of Veddw

Links to articles about Anne and Veddw. (see also Anne's writing ) Veddw A visit to Veddw House Garden Is less more? And for whom?  Trying not to say 'lovely' Visiting Veddw The Struggle: Working Man's Blues  Veddw - a thinking person's garden An Undulating Eye-Opener...

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