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Garden notes no. 23, at St John’s Waterloo

Posted on June 18, 2020 by jonathan trustram

You can’t miss it. Near the Imax cinema (with its ever changing display of vast and vulgar curving adverts which presumably are the life-blood of the BFI: slender smart phones the size of houses, knickers and bras, magical trainers ), … Continue reading →

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Garden notes no 22. Cistuses, George Herbert’s ‘shriveled heart’, eryngiums (again).

Posted on May 31, 2020 by jonathan trustram

              Who would have thought my shriveled heart            Could have recovered greenness? It was gone            Quite underground, as flowers depart           … Continue reading →

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Garden Notes no 21, picking about the gravel. Verbascum, foxglove, Koelreuteria, etc.

Posted on May 31, 2020 by jonathan trustram

This koelreuteria – sorry, I know, one of the more tricky botanical names, after “Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter, 1733-1806, professor of natural history at Karlsruhe, a pioneer experimental investigator of plant hybrididization”, aka Pride of India, although it comes from China, … Continue reading →

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Garden Notes number 20 “wouldn’t it be great if it were like this all the time”

Posted on May 17, 2020 by jonathan trustram

I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comesStreaming through the window in the autumn sunshineAnd all the time going to Coney Island I’m thinking,Wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time.    … Continue reading →

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Garden Notes no. 19 geraniums and pelargoniums

Posted on May 14, 2020 by jonathan trustram

  Geranium (psilostemon)   Pelargonium (sidoides) Geranium (sanguineum) Pelargonium (Royal Oak) Geranium (pratense) Pelargonium (Sweet Mimosa) Geranium (palmatum) Pelargonium (Cola Bottles) Geranium (robertianum, herb robert) Pelargonium (Lemon Fancy) Geranium (pyrenaicum) Pelargonium (the one that used to be common in chip … Continue reading →

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Garden notes no. 18, Welsh poppies, Geranium sylvaticum, hellebores again, a sad dog story, Saxifraga cotyledon, tulips as weeds

Posted on May 10, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Is it a special year for Welsh poppies? Here they are at G., both colours, with honesty still flowering in the background. Pushed into the background. By late afternoon the naked flowers have closed up: The hellebores have also seemed … Continue reading →

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Garden notes 17, home and away, a further intermission

Posted on May 7, 2020 by jonathan trustram

… because my mind began to wander, and it’s hard to get back to the garden. This is really what I meant to do in the last Garden Notes, i.e. show some more plants which I’ve seen in the wild … Continue reading →

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garden notes 16, intermission with aubrieta

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Aubrieta on Profitis Ilias in the Taygetos mountains, Peloponnese, Greece, in April. This picture should be big! See if you can make it look bigger on your screen….   But maybe its picture postcard size is appropriate, it fits that lockdown … Continue reading →

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Garden notes 15, the corn cockle, aliens

Posted on April 29, 2020 by jonathan trustram

see also Garden notes number twelve; sex, pests, culture wars, paradise and narrow observation I looked again at a photo I put up on the bathroom wall – It’s the corn cockle growing in a field of corn, as you might … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number fourteen; swarming things, tulips

Posted on April 26, 2020 by jonathan trustram

For entertainment at my birthday party – I would have been eleven, I think – my father brought home from work a film projector, a little screen and several short educational films made by companies like ICI and BP. We … Continue reading →

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