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 …
A few random snippets
Brief sojourn in Bristol There is certainly no stopping a bramble… This one has grown up through the hollow post of a fence in Stoke Park in Bristol – where these goats are also happily roaming free and munching whatever, including the brambles, comes their way. Back in Hampstead Lane Back in the Hampstead Lane …
Jazz in the garden
I am very conscious that this blog has taken a back seat over the last many weeks in favour of our Salon Music and my own blog. So, since the party did take place in the garden at Hampstead Lane I am reproducing the post I have just added to the Salon’s blog for the …
About gardens
The garden at Hampstead Lane has discovered ‘life’and is proclaiming its discovery in no uncertain manner. The deep bed which runs around the raised patio is positively rammed: heuchera fighting with geranium Rozannes, cotinus, the ponytail grasses, the acers, the roses, the corkscrew hazel, the achemilla, the erigerons – all desperate to be seen! The …
Garden update – early June
We have, as you can see, fully embraced ‘no mow May’ and are now well into ‘no mow June’. The decision was not hard as the two mowers I have are both electric and have both sat out in the rain for the last three years so were highly unlikely to have worked. However, I …
Himalayan balsam
Pretty, isn’t it? And it looks lovely when it lines the route of a railway line or a river. But… In the Himalayas, from whence it hoves, balsam is kept reasonably under control by rust fungus (Puccinia komarovii var. glanduliferae for those who want to be technical). But in the UK the rust fungus is …