Jeff’s gone!
We finally wore him out. No more hedge cutting.
New post and a warning…
As you will have gathered by now, I am not a professional designer. Which means a great many things, one being that my plans often don’t seem to work.
Smothering
How often would a plant grow cheerfully through things we (you?) desperately remove? And do plants actually enjoy being crowded? Do they like the company of ground elder? How will we ever find out?
Ivy on House Walls.
Meanwhile I’m about to bore you with thoughts about growing ivy all over your house, just to avoid being controversial today.
Have eBooks at last become essential?
I recently decided to buy Tim Richardson’s book, Sissinghurst, The Dream Garden. (Excellent book) And I did something I’d been meaning to do for a long time – I bought the eBook…
With thanks to Carolyn Mullet
A big treat arrived for us today – Carolyn’s book, Adventures in Eden.
Gardens Need Critics by Anne Wareham for The Garden Design Journal
No art form can thrive without the serious discussion and dialogue which criticism offers: it raises standards, informs, educates and promotes intelligent debate. It is the very lifeblood of any high art.
Box Blight: what we’ve done.
We thought about it and it seemed possible……
Veddw in the Snow
I thought now it’s back to grey gloom you might like to see my pictures of Veddw in the snow from a few days ago.
One View through a Year
These are all views of the Crescent Border through the year from the same place
Octo arrives.
We needed a focal point…
Veddw on TV, long ago.
“The programme makers were confronted with a key question: what on earth was there about Veddw that might inspire anyone?”
A Real Hero, I think.
I know you are all fed up with hearing about Veddw disasters, but this blog serves as a diary as well as something (what on earth?) else. And this is a big thing for us. Today Charles, who finds eating bullets as hard as we all do, finally bit one of the many bullets...
33 years old!!!
33 years old! So how are we celebrating, you ask?
Cutting to the Bone
We decided we wouldn’t open this year. So why not really make a mess????
Bespoke visits to Veddw
So we are wondering about offering a bespoke visit for a maximum of two people.
Voted one of the UK’s Top 100 Gardens by Garden News
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