Wordless Wednesday: Snowy at the Herge Museum
Snowy leads the way
A walk in Edford Wood
One of the highlights of last weekend’s Shepton Snowdrop Festival was a guided walk through Edford Wood to see snowdrops growing in the wild. The wood, which is owned by the Somerset Wildlife Trust, is a designated ancient woodland, meaning that it has existed continuously since 1600. It mainly seemed to be made up…
DetailsThe Snowdrops are comin’ home
February can be a pretty bleak month in the garden so a new festival celebrating one of the month’s few horticultural reasons to be cheerful is good news. The Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival (http://www.sheptonsnowdropfestival.org.uk), which took place for the first time this weekend (17-19 February), is the brainchild of the town’s horticultural society (http://www.sheptonhortsoc.org.uk). The…
DetailsWordless 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…
DetailsWordless Wednesday: Blossom in January
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.