Blue Border
In order to use both blue and purple in the flower border, this cool, western, grey-foliaged end has the blues, and the further, eastern end the purples.
Category: Garden Writing
Orchard Meadow
The grasses undulate in the breeze, with the motion of a slight swell at sea. As we walk round the orchard, now facing, now backing the sun, they change colour; they are pale silver fawn with the sun full on them, and darker and redder against the sun’s light.
Ghost Gardens
In America ‘ghost gardens’ are rather the fashion. Here everything is dim and subdued.
Working as a Garden Writer
If you love gardening, it is natural to want to share this with others. Some gardeners do so by sharing flowers, plants and produces, others through photography, and some take up a pen to share their passion through the written word.
The Gardener’s Big Treasure Hunt
t is the big treasure hunt of the year, even more exciting than searching for the fruit in the tangle of straw round the strawberry plants.
The Secret Garden
It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.
Weeding
After such a day my fingers are bleeding, knees tottering, back bent, dress muddy and soaking, and shoes an offence to my tidy maid; but I have attained the most profound inward peace, and the blessed belief of having uprooted all my enemies.
One Colour Gardens
It is extremely interesting to work out gardens in which some special colouring predominates, and to those who, by natural endowment or careful eye-cultivation, possess or have acquired what artists understand by an eye for colour, it opens out a whole new range of garden delights.
