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November 22, 2011 | St Catherine's Hill and St Cross The top of the hill was an Iron Age fort. Stand there and look around. The beech woods slide down the earthworks and delve you down into the valley of the river Itchen. Tributaries of chalk streams of the tickled brown trout and some of the best fly-fishing in England. Behind the hill the traffic [...]  November 18, 2011 | Grave places used to completely creep me out. Now I love a good graveyard. It’s probably an age thing. Hidden away there are numinous and peaceful places that are worth seeking out to sit in and be still. Down an alleyway off one of the shopping streets in Woodbridge there is a worn brick [...] November 10, 2011 | Get naked at David Austin The leaves are off, or nearly, and I’m taking my mind back to David Austin and February. I went there for a day’s course on designing with roses run by the inexorable Diana Perry, fount of rose lore. Due to dog trauma (another story altogether) I did not write a blog log but now I [...] November 7, 2011 | Best/worst front gardens - series 3 I rate this garden *** (largely due to snappily clipped yew) Ratings explained: * Call for a skip ** Concrete over it *** Covet it **** I’d sling my hammock here ***** In my wildest dreams Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1418′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); November 3, 2011 | Plantaholic Post Malus John Downie – the small crabapple with the cherriest of fruit. We are about to plant an avenue of these trees on a hilltop (if you can call a Suffolk rise in the ground that). A wildflower meadow has been seeded around them. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1415′).each( function(e) { [...] October 31, 2011 | Butter yellow with rust brown Thursday last week was one of those days when the sky had been hung up to dry without being wrung out. It rained and when it stopped, pregnant raindrops hung in the air. Under a soft grey underbelly of cloud. I could almost have fooled myself into being in Cornwall. Walking with squealching feet down [...] October 28, 2011 | And so to Columbine Hall. Tucked away in Suffolk behind rape fields and not far from ribbon development bungalows. The house takes its name not from the flower but by way of ancient association with the Norman family of de Columbers who owned the feudal manor in the 13C. Moated houses are common in this part of England but [...] October 22, 2011 | A quick gallop through some garden history Chatsworth gardens as laid out in 1699 The first gardens that archeology uncovers are those made by the Egyptians. Walled cool courtyards carved out of the arid desert and based round water, the formal planting of date palms, papyrus and figs in rows. Since the making of the earliest gardens, there has been a [...] October 22, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY
Craggy Cornish wall. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1366′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); October 5, 2011 | Things I like in Battersea Park There are many. It starts before stepping off Chelsea Bridge heading south. The burger van. Greasey smell and crumpled paper not-quite-in-the- bin to contrast with the tai chi. The bicycling, the limber upping, the joggers, runners, the dog walkers. And just the plain old A to Bers. Walking in the dappled shade from the avenues [...] |
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