The garden is looking distinctly Decemberish – dead ferns and very green mirrors thanks to all the rain. But the heron is glad to shed his green mantle for a few months – and Darby and Joan are still striding out. Although the grass is now all shorn, the large white hydrangea now a rather …
100,000 trees and a threaded forest
Sara Vrugt is a Dutch artist who works mainly with embroidery and in the context of nature. Frustrated by our powerlessness to prevent the destruction of forests worldwide she came up with the idea of a huge embroidered forest, a threaded forest. A 4 metre high immensely long (think Bayeux tapestry) embroidery of trees from …
Is summer over already?…..
Officially, autumn started nine days ago, but I am trying to look on it as just another phase of summer….. And clearing out some of the now spent summer plants has given a different feel to the garden. But first I want to share a few of photographer Marc Gascoigne’s rather lovely pics. I have …
Jazz party and the August garden
Our jazz garden party happened last Sunday and here are the first comers getting in on that bread and cheese before anyone else arrived – or indeed the music got started. And here is our next door neighbour, Jean, trying to decide which of that pretty impressive choice of cheeses to go for…. As far …
Richmond to Strawberry Hill – by ferry
One of the bonuses of gardening at Highgate Cemeteries is that the lovely volunteer lady, Kim, arranges a lot of excellent exchange visits for us volunteers to go to other interesting houses, gardens and cemeteries around London. And a couple of weeks ago we were posted off to Strawberry Hill House, Horace Walpole’s 18th century …
Uncovering a grave
‘So what are we doing this morning Adam?’ Our usual question when we arrive for a Highgate cemeteries gardening shift – and usually the answer is ivy clearance, bramble bashing, or reducing the overhanging trees so that visitors can walk underneath. But this morning we were put on ‘special duty’ – uncovering a grave. We …