Author Archives: jonathan trustram

Gardening notes number three, weeding

Posted on March 29, 2020 by jonathan trustram

The original version of these notes was written in the context of my work in  public open spaces with  Putting Down Roots,  St Mungo’s gardening project for homeless people. I tell Chris (still the faithful volunteer at St John’s)  that … Continue reading →

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recycling, or going round in circles

Posted on March 23, 2020 by jonathan trustram

this is a continuation of the thing about the lizard in the corner of the picture. now can you see it?   I’m now having lots of experience of looking for tennis balls. Today I found one by treading on it. … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number two, communities and bare earth

Posted on March 23, 2020 by jonathan trustram

To begin with a disappointment: we visited a garden in Wiltshire – Hele House in the Avon valley between Amesbury and Salisbury, a place I had ‘fond memories’ of, where the happy channels of the river flow through meadows planted … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number one, the sacred and the demonic

Posted on March 23, 2020 by jonathan trustram

The sacred and the devil’s own work, garden plants in the moral imagination. It’s often the way the bad plants multiply which causes greatest offence. they swarm, they suffocate, they uproot, they propagate by the million, they’re eaten up with … Continue reading →

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See also:

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jonathan trustram

see also: Deviations, Boundaries, Prohibitions, (revised) tracks, ribbons, edges and boundaries….. the dog tries to make sense of it all underground the worms and moles have their routes and channels In the mountain forest the path of the big ants … Continue reading →

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now can you see it?

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jonathan trustram

see:   on seeing since I can’t get the picture to appear any bigger, I’ve cropped it.

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on seeing

Posted on October 7, 2019 by jonathan trustram

I’m sorry that I can’t make this photo bigger. We were in the village of Exochori in Greece last year. We were on the road below a high retaining wall above which sits the square in front of the church, … Continue reading →

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Nice people, nice dogs

Posted on September 17, 2019 by jonathan trustram

August 24th. First day back from Laurieston. as the dog and I made our way up towards the fountain by the house so she could have a drink, I saw some pure silver bunches of honesty, a good four feet … Continue reading →

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some notes (on marketing, brexit and language)

Posted on September 17, 2019 by jonathan trustram

I am sorry to announce that I was on a train from Paddington to St Austell just before christmas and as we travelled through the silver-grey Somerset floods in a leisurely row row row your boat sort of way the … Continue reading →

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Laurieston Hall

Posted on August 15, 2019 by jonathan trustram

May 2012. Laurieston I had another dream about Laurieston. Which toilet to use? Where’s my coat? Then I thought I’d like to take some soil away. So I filled a wheelbarrow, but put so much in that I couldn’t move … Continue reading →

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