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 …
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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 …
Early May garden
I had been planning this morning on getting out onto my big patio at the back of the garden, stripping off the table covering and giving the whole thing a good scrub. But sadly, this morning the sun has disappeared and we are back to grey chill, so here I am at my desk. But …
The garden at Hampstead Lane – stage 4 – summer 2022
We left the garden in Hampstead Lane in the early summer of this year at the point when the builders had finally withdrawn themselves and their equipment – and I had planted out the ferns outside my bedroom window. Out beyond the steps, massive bags of soil had arrived and had been spread round the …
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