Looking out from the coastal path at Harty Ferry near Faversham, it is all but impossible to see where the dappled gun metal grey of the clouds meets the shimmering pewter of the Thames estuary – fringed, at high tide, with dark brown wet seaweed. The path runs along the Oare marshes, a birders’ paradise …
Gardens
Sculpture in Cotswolds
If you were looking for a home for an outdoor sculpture exhibition you could scarcely do better than the Old Rectory in Quenington, deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. Down the winding lane past the sixteenth century church, through the archway, into a gravelled courtyard. Plants to buy ranged down one side, the long …
Roses in bloom in the garden
For more – not to mention the destruction wrought by the snails….. – see the Garden pages.
Spring on Hampstead Heath…
…and in the Lawn Road Garden. See the Garden pages here.
Fox play…..
Pretty, aren’t they? Even prettier when they were all out in the garden. Not their best year as they rushed out too early in our February heat wave and then got rather confused as to what they were doing. But none the less pretty. All dead now – but….all militarily upright so, I thought, would …
Hacking bracken and looking to the future
Dorset in January… Well, Dorset in January if you happen to live in the middle of a wood where the bracken and fern are rampant and where the deer decimate anything which does not have vicious thorns to protect itself. Believe it or not but there is a rather fine hamamelis tree buried under that lot. …