Do you remember those ridiculous six foot high alliums whose stalks were reaching for the sky? Well, finally – two months later – they are starting to flower. First by shedding their pointed hats… ..and then bursting (slightly half heartedly) into bloom. Will all those tight little buds open out or is that the way …
Gardens
Woodbridge, a cuckoo – and Wenhaston Grange
I have just spent the weekend at the Aldeburgh Festival but rather than staying in Aldeburgh we took an Air BnB in Woodbridge, down the coast on the River Deben – and just up the road from Sutton Hoo, the most important and stunning Anglo Saxon site in the UK. Woodbridge also home to a …
Light into Life: Marc Quinn at Kew
The weather forecast promised rain at 11am on Bank Holiday Monday and then for the rest of the day. So, I thought, if I get to Kew as the gates open at 10am, not only will I miss the rain but the bank holiday crowds. Great theory – and I did miss the crowds, but …
April garden update
It may not look as though we are making much progress – still builders very much in evidence – but I promise you that we are… The paving is now all laid around the house (still working on the area in front of the garage) and I have even managed to plant some wheelie bin …
Very overdue garden update……
I am deeply embarrassed to see that it is three months since I posted about my garden, Heath Hands or indeed any garden anywhere. I can only blame our Salon Music project which has rather taken over my blog life, whatever about the rest of my life. And it has been winter so most of …
Chagall windows at Tudeley
This stumpy little church buried amongst the Kent apple orchards is All Saints Tudeley – and it is the only church in the world to have had every one of its twelve windows created by the Russian artist Marc Chagall. How come? In the early 1960s the grand house nearby, Somerhill, belonged to Sir Henry …