Who is the garden for? Part 2.
But how could it be closer to the pleasure of wandering a garden with a friend?
Walking round your garden
Clearly we need to begin to discipline our approach to garden walking. And I think it may be possible.
What (else) could possibly go wrong?
I thought I would cheer some of those people up a little with some schadenfreude, and tell of the latest garden disasters.
Who is the Garden for?
I wonder how many gardeners are shocked by the idea of two acres focused simply on one plant?
Appreciating our weaknesses
Small sample of hedges cut properly….
Round the Back
Are we missing something, focusing on fronts?
Guided Tours?
Veddw on the Candide app.
One view a month.
I once took a picture of the same view from one of our windows every month for a year and I liked seeing the changes which in the flesh meld into each other. So I did it again with one of my favourite views outside.
Thugs you might like.
There is a scattering of delight in the garden just now, and has been for weeks. It’s a flower; a geranium:
Poor Bob is Dead
The Burial
One of top three in Wales
Just a quickie to say that we’re dead chuffed to have been voted one of the best three gardens in Wales
Weeds, some questions…
Gardeners very rarely really think about this, being more likely to recognise something simply as a bad plant, which must be got rid of.
We’re open on some Sundays!
We’re OPEN – on the 1st and third Sundays in July, August and September 2-5.
Pattern
Sometimes (not by any means always) the rigid balance of symmetry is a bit dead for me.
Our German week
What is biggest perhaps for me is that Gardens Illustrated turned this piece down
Globes!!!
They’re here!
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