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Category Archives: gardens
garden notes no 27, repetition, moralising, looking, the dying of the light
So what do they ‘really look like’? see Garden notes no 25, Clematis jackmanii, coming true from seed, white variants, ways of seeing(no 25) For an interesting image the photographer often squats or kneels or even lies flat. Down low … Continue reading
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garden notes no 26, myrtle
People sometimes want a small tree, but they don’t know what they’re asking for. They have in mind maybe a young magnolia or cherry or crab apple such as you may see in many front gardens. Alas, they all grow … Continue reading
Garden notes no 25, Clematis jackmanii, coming true from seed, white variants, ways of seeing
Poor old Dad. No one said, he loved this place, let’s give him a bench. I remember vividly, although maybe it’s the photo that I remember, over the compost heap at Tufnell Park Road was draped my father’s old dressing … Continue reading
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Garden notes no 24, lilies, eryngiums and companions, Salvia patens, the Kardashian building
Spring is intoxicating but summer brings headaches. The leaves on one of my lovely Salvia patens look like a cross section through a diseased lung. After the hot spring, exile from the greenhouse for the morning glories was like going … Continue reading
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Garden notes no. 23, at St John’s Waterloo
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
Garden notes no 22. Cistuses, George Herbert’s ‘shriveled heart’, eryngiums (again).
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.
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
Garden Notes number 20 “wouldn’t it be great if it were like this all the time”
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
Garden Notes no. 19 geraniums and pelargoniums
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
Garden notes no. 18, Welsh poppies, Geranium sylvaticum, hellebores again, a sad dog story, Saxifraga cotyledon, tulips as weeds
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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