Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Today was the (almost) annual visit to Kingston Bagpuize gardens in Oxfordshire. They have wonderful drifts of snowdrops, aconites, crocuses. A visit always lifts the spirit at the cold end of winter. A carpet of snowdrops at Church Copse Aconites …
I blogged about this Snowdrop in 2011, so rather than go into the same detail, you can read about it here, and enjoy the pictures below. I’ll be taking a few of these to Sheffield with me.
The first goodbye in Oxford, as the house sale and move to Sheffield gets closer, was to the wonderful Oxford World Development Movement Group. On Tuesday evening we attended our last meeting before going to the pub for a goodbye …
This is the 2nd in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. The Singapore Botanic Gardens takes up a large part of the island of Singapore (183 acres), and is one of Singapore’s greatest …
This is the first in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. Singapore is a large metropolitan city, with 5 million people on it’s small island (only 272 sq miles). The thing that strongly …
Swainsona formosa
It’s been a bit quiet on the gardening front here at Gwenfar’s Lottie in the last couple of months. Apart from several weeks in Australia and Singapore (which I’ll start blogging about soon), I’ve mainly been focussing my energies elsewhere. …
Why Sheffield? The first question everyone asks us when we tell friends and colleagues that we are moving from Oxford to Sheffield. It’s a good question as anyone who knows us will know we don’t have any particular connection to …
Several friends have asked us about the process we used for making our decision on where we might want to move (moving to Sheffield if you haven’t seen the other posts!) to in order to try out new work and ideas. …