Any of you who watched Gentleman Jack on the BBC earlier in the year will already know Shibden Hall, Anne Listers’ ancestral home near Halifax where much of the series was filmed. (Very fine formal garden they have there too, for those of you who are interested…) I went to visit it a few weeks ago …
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Garden update
I am embarrassed that it is two months since I did a garden update….. so here we go – on a stunning August afternoon. Read on…
Queen Anne’s Lace and the Oare marshes
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 …
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.