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June 12, 2010 | Bird on Head series one: Robert Adam This is Edinburgh. Overwhelmingly grey but lovely. Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. Adam, not the seagull. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d483′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });  June 8, 2010 | Monthly black list I am almost heading for the weird and wild lands with the genus Arisaema, known as Cobra lilies. They are such strange plants, but now that I have joined the Blotanical network, no doubt someone will post me with the message that the cat scratches its back on them by the kitchen door. The one [...] June 6, 2010 | Barbara Hepworth's sculpture garden in Cornwall.
sky in St Ives The hill down to St Ives is thronged with genteel boarding houses, net-curtained and jostling for business with inviting signs outside. Small front gardens are brimful of pots of geraniums and petunias with benches positioned to catch every sliver of sunshine. Gull shriek is loud and sparkling reflections bounce off the [...] June 5, 2010 | Plantaholic Post This is Lychnis flos-cuculi ‘Jenny’, related to hedgerow Ragged Robin. Yes, I know it was all-over Chelsea Flower Show but there it was, sitting on a stand in a grassy Floral Marquee @Suffolkshow and I had to have it. Beware the plant-breeders rights thing. Legalities to one side, it looks like a shell [...]  The Suffolk Show yesterday. Hmmmmmmm – the washed and brushed side of farming. June 1, 2010 | Celebrity pin up WHO? BETH CHATTO WHY? As Vidal Sassoon was to hairdos so Beth Chatto is to the garden.
Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d421′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); June 1, 2010 | An Iris that looks like a Tibetan terrier? The trouble with some plants is they shyly make themselves impossible to photograph, and this one, Iris germanica Vigilante, slyly squatting in Mike Loftus’s iris field, is one such. Hiding its eyes beneath a fringe, or droopy standards (to get the argot) and all this talk of beards , I’m definitely put in mind of [...] |
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