Wordless Wednesday: Snowdrops
Snowdrops
Potatoes by Proxy
Too much choice can be a difficult thing to handle, at least when it comes to choosing potatoes. This year my disappointment at not being able to attend our local potato day (http://www.potato-days.net), was tempered when I recalled how traumatic I had found last year’s event (the first I had ever attended). A potato day…
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Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’
In the papers
‘Tis the week before Christmas and the newspapers are filled with seasonally adjusted book selections, and ‘books of the year’ round ups … I always love reading these but this year I’ve been scanning them with an extra frisson of anticipation, as The London Garden Book A-Z, 2nd edition has just hit the shops (and the…
DetailsAutumn on the Allotment
So, autumn is here and another growing season on the allotment has more or less come to an end (bar some stalwart Swiss chard, a few lingering, enormous beetroots, and some brassicas yet to come on stream). What with the recent Marmite scare and the news that olive oil is going to become more expensive…
DetailsTurning over a new leaf
Early May is a magical time of year. In the garden, and in the countryside everything is full of promise and the youthful foliage that’s just emerging has a wonderful freshness about it. It’s all too brief of course – time and chlorophyll wait for no man, but perhaps a few photographs will help…
DetailsSneak Preview of Museums & Galleries of London 6th edition
Huzzah! The latest, fully revised edition of Museums & Galleries of London is coming soon – the publication date is 18th May.
William Morris Gallery
This award-winning museum celebrates William Morris, the founding father of the Arts and Crafts Movement. A powerhouse of energy and creativity, Morris was also an entrepreneur, poet, translator, Socialist, typographer, and pioneering conservationist. No wonder the cause of his death (in 1896) was given as ‘being William Morris and having done more work than most…
DetailsBrunel Museum, Rotherhithe
It took father-and-son team Marc and Isambard Brunel eighteen years to build the world’s first under-river tunnel, linking Rotherhithe on the south side of the Thames to Wapping on the north. Located in the original Engine House, this award-winning museum tells the story of their achievement in the face of floods, financial losses and human…
DetailsThe Stephens Collection
Medical man Dr Henry Stephens was the inventor of the famous ‘Blue-Black Writing Fluid’ and went on to become something big in ink. His son Henry Charles (‘Inky’) Stephens developed the family business and brought Avenue House in 1874, adding a laboratory and planting the rare trees which can be seen in the landscaped grounds…
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