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October 22, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY

Craggy Cornish wall.

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August 31, 2011 | Doing it with vegetables: a bit of a rant on the part of garden designers

The non glossy but very cool Garden Design Journal often has a thought provoking contribution from Tim Richardson. His latest, for September,  will raise a show of hands from garden designers who do not belong to the  BGP. (Big Gun Posse)

As one of those types of designer – ie the slightly disgruntled second division [...]

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October 3, 2010 | Oh lovely Damascus.

Damascene rose, damask fabric and as the guidebook would have it, Dimashq.  The old town is an ellipse – bounded more or less by walls and divided up into different districts – the original pattern is christian, jewish, muslim.  The oldest inhabited city in the world, perhaps.  The Romans came and went, Tamerlane shot through, [...]

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September 19, 2010 | Playing with scale

There is a walk round here that I go on nearly every day.  The landscape is pretty spacious and empty.  We are in Suffolk which is the county of the large skies.  It is what you get with flat ground.

London is not much over an hour away by train but this is the empty quarter. [...]

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