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Tag Archives: London

Leaf Lore on the Rooftop Vegplot

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisMarch 8, 2017Leave a comment

Salad days are here again and with this in mind my visit to Wendy Shillam’s city potager for a workshop on leaf growing could not have been better timed. After a disappointing lettuce season last year, I’ve been yearning for delicious homegrown salads and itching to crack open the seed packets and so when Wendy…

Sneak Preview of Museums & Galleries of London 6th edition

Museums & GalleriesBy Abigail WillisApril 20, 2016Leave a comment

Huzzah!  The latest, fully revised edition of Museums & Galleries of London is coming soon – the publication date is 18th May.

William Morris Gallery

Gardening, urban and otherwise, Museums & GalleriesBy Abigail WillisMarch 18, 2016Leave a comment

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…

The height of urban gardening

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisNovember 9, 2015Leave a comment

Land.  They’re not making any more of it, or so we’re told, and in cities even less so – which can make finding a decent garden a challenging proposition.  A small, shaded backyard, a long thin strip or a balcony are the most that many would-be urban gardeners can hope for and such unyielding sites…

A garden written in the stars

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisJune 30, 2014Leave a comment

Entering someone’s garden via a stepladder over the fence is not the most conventional way to start a visit, but that’s what happened when I went to look at Kay Thomson’s garden earlier this month.  Her garden shares a boundary with that belonging to her friends Susan Bennett & Earl Hyde, the irrepressible assistant county…

Idle Talk

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisApril 29, 2013Leave a comment

Blog postings on this site have been a bit thin on the ground of late.  Apologies – I’ve temporarily deserted my posts (as it were) to blog for the Chelsea Fringe, the fantastic new festival of gardening that burst onto the horticultural scene last summer.  With entries coming in thick and fast, the 2013 Fringe…

An ace garden with quite a nice museum attached

Gardening, urban and otherwise, Museums & GalleriesBy Abigail WillisJanuary 12, 2013Leave a comment

They say no research is ever wasted and one of the many rewards of years spent researching successive editions of Museums & Galleries of London is that when I came to writing the London Garden Book A-Z, I already knew that it would feature several great museums that also have terrific gardens.  Revisiting them with…

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