Category Archives: mountains, flowers, landscapes

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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Garden notes number twelve; sex, pests, culture wars (art v. nature), paradise and narrow observation

Posted on April 19, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Yesterday I browsed again – I much prefer that quiet bovine metaphor to that of the muscular (and possibly drowning) surfer – through Keith Thomas’s fascinating Man and the Natural World, thinking to illustrate, through an assembly of quotations, the … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number ten, the itch to intervene, a few lines from John Clare, Adam in Eden, Haberlea rhodopensis and DH Lawrence

Posted on April 12, 2020 by jonathan trustram

I’m remembering the radical ecologist (see Garden notes number three) and his airy contempt for gardeners. But also a few lines from John Clare: Where last years leaves and weeds decay / March violets are in blow I’d rake the … 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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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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Names (of limited interest)

Posted on November 4, 2018 by jonathan trustram

I wrote and quoted the below some time ago. I actually looked for it in my blog for some time before I realised that it was unfinished and ‘unpublished’. Here it is, unedited. I came back to it because I’ve … Continue reading →

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on Piz Nair

Posted on August 26, 2018 by jonathan trustram

Piz Nair is a mountain almost exactly 3000 metres high above St Moritz in the Engadine, south eastern Switzerland. It’s famous for its alpine flora, and it’s easy to reach because a rack and pinion railway, for the first part, … Continue reading →

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on the train

Posted on March 9, 2018 by jonathan trustram

20 September, on the train from Inverness to Edinburgh on the hill going out of Diabaig I reversed a little, as we were two cars caught between Passing Places, and into the ditch I went. I might have been fooled … Continue reading →

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