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 …
geranium Rozanne
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 …
Tiny and oh so slow signs of spring
Because my garden is almost entirely new I am desperate for the spring to come so that I can see what has survived the winter’s chill. So this morning I braved the rain to make an inventory of what is gingerly poking its nose out into the big bad world. First the resident apple tree …