There are masses of seed pods in the garden at the moment. I particularly like the Love in a Mist ones although the opium poppy heads are pretty lovely too. As I've never grown either of these before  it's a real treat to include them...

26 June, 2014 /

It's the details in nature that have always completely fascinated me and I am perpetually amazed and grateful at the abundance of beautiful wild plants and creatures, with their extroidinary designs surrounding us.  There is a passage in the preface of this 1930's book 'The Look-About-You...

19 June, 2014 /

Whilst some of the flowers in the garden continue  to flower abundantly, others seem to be coming to the end of a floral burst. The sweet peas are a joy and the pinks are producing loads more flowers this year too, but the Campanula seem to...

19 June, 2014 /

So, driving back from the shops, I see this extroidinary display of wild flowers in a very un-extroidinary part of Brighton...

18 June, 2014 /

Ever since I was really young I’ve had a fascination for grasses. I was always amazed that when just sitting in a park or playground I was surrounded by so many different species and when I was about 6 I asked for The Observers Book of...

17 June, 2014 /

I’ve been tidying the shed over the last couple of days as during May it becomes an installation for the Open House Exhibition, and because this year it was ‘The Shipwreck Shed’ there are lots of old bits of rope hanging around, as well as...

12 June, 2014 /

I  am amazed ( and very happy! ) that for the first time EVER this year, I have managed to grow Sweet Peas with any degree of success.  I've been dying to have the delicate smell of my own, home grown ones around the house; it must...

10 June, 2014 /

I did a lot of driving over the weekend, and it was lovely to come back with some family roses...

09 June, 2014 /