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January 10, 2012 | I have been sitting on Brita von Schoenaich's birches for too long Almost but not quite. The image has been looming on the desktop and housewifery has hit the computer screen. Why are they there? Simply because over and over again the simplicity of this planting strikes me as perfect. Lovely it is that there is nothing other than birches. Like it? Click to share, tweet and [...]  November 30, 2011 | Wordless Wednesday. Tony Cragg - sinuous and shiny
Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1502′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); November 24, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY Detail of door in Lalibela Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1466′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); 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 [...] October 20, 2011 | The best water features in Europe or even the world are to be found in the hills near Rome. For inspiration and ideas there are three gardens with which to cram a life-time of sketches and ideas. Particularly if you could step back in time and help yourself to the purse of a Cardinal. My three favourites are these: Diana of [...] October 19, 2011 | Celebrity pin upWHO? Laetitia Maklouf WHY? For whimsical and charming garden writing Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1352′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); September 1, 2011 | Celebrity pin up WHO? Antony Gormley WHY? For his exploration of the space that a body occupies. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1256′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); August 29, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY Chestnut trunk covered with lichen beards in Tuscan wood. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1229′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); February 22, 2011 | GREAT DIXTER - from the Archives The trouble with this garden is that you might never make it further than the car park. Swinging in from the flatlands of East Anglia, the view is pull-you-up breathlesss. Northiam’s backbone curls round a ridge and collapses into a punchbowl of sheep and tree clumps. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1156′).each( [...] October 10, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY We did end up buying a carpet on the recent Syrian trip. Or it might be a rug or a kelim. I know that quantity of knots per square inch are the acid test. Any way here it is, a lovely object from Tabriz in Iran. The man on the right is the carpet [...] |
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