Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Monday, 28 November 2016

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Life Around Brunswick and Mecklenburgh Squares Brunswick  and Mecklenburgh Squares are two of more than 440 ‘squares’ in London. They lie ...
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012

More Hanging Gardens, this time in Madrid!

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In Madrid near the Prado Museum we saw this enormous hanging wall garden. Given how much biomass one often removes seasonally from one's...
Friday, 24 February 2012

Spring has sprung – maybe

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It was heart-warming walking through Durham yesterday. Partly cloudy, no wind and 13° (54°F). Doesn't that sound like spring? And flow...
Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Sunday Brunch at St. ALi (now Workshop Coffee)

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STOP PRESS! St. ALi has been renamed Workshop Coffee, due to its new management and independence from the Melbourne shop. Far less lyrical, ...
Friday, 13 January 2012

Runner beans, are they or are they not?

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It's time to think of planting a garden this summer! But what varieties? Above are the "runner beans" planted by my sister...
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Monday, 2 January 2012

The green, green grass of England, and its sheep

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Well, it's been a good New Year's holiday: too busy to write. But today, as things wind down and the sun finally comes out, I did so...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Edwardian experience in Edgware Road station, London

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The Edgware Road station of the Bakerloo Line takes one back in time to the early 1900s. It has the iconic facade of several of the London u...
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Thursday, 1 December 2011

Bulbs already sprouting in December!

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Bulbs* sprouting in December My spring bulbs are pushing up through the ground! Most are only an inch high, but two daffodil bulbs have ...
Thursday, 13 October 2011

A wildflower mistake in my garden

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My summer wildflower garden: too many feverfew I hardly need to say how popular gardening is among the British. People happily spend all...