When I left for a week in Lisbon in mid April, my Lewes garden was mostly daffodils and budding tulips and, of course, my much loved camellia. When I returned, there had been one of those great seasonal shifts…
Sorry to bore you all but I couldn’t resist posting some more photographs from my Spring garden. the sun is shining and the plants are responding accordingly. Taking it easy, as I’m told to do by the doctor, is a…
Zephyr, the wolf (photo: Wolf Conservation Center) This wolf is called Zephyr and even though I don’t really that believe that wolves get enthusiastic about cherry blossom, he does seem to be enjoying himself on this fine spring day. I…
I dead-head my last daffodil just as my tulips brought a new colour scheme into my small Lewes courtyard garden. Here is ‘Ballerina’ with her fiery elegance and bold vertical lines. They mix well with the blue of the grape…
Sunday morning here in Lewes was sunny and warm until a breeze arrived mid afternoon with some milky clouds. It was the perfect day to admire the cherry blossom which has been especially beautiful this Spring but will peak in…
It is a moistly grey Spring day here in Lewes, UK. One of those days that feels like the moment you hold back tears but feel placidly tranquil too. The light couldn’t be more appropriate for my new tulips that…
We’re enjoying a brief break in the rain here today in Lewes, UK so I’ve taken the moment to photograph the apple and cherry blossom and also the flowering camellia. These fragile blooms delight all the more because of their…
Writing yesterday about T.S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land and how it was, at least partly inspired by the English drought of 1921, I look out on my small Lewes garden and hope that it won’t too turn into…
When I was a small child I was mildly obsessed by my father’s ancient collection of old 78 rpm gramophone records which, if I was very lucky he would play some of them for me on a slightly more modern…
The blossom has opened on my little cherry tree here in my Lewes garden in Southern England and it is an appropriate moment to remember Japan in this their catastrophic year. I wonder if they will be able to celebrate…