Category Archives: mountains, flowers, landscapes

At Vodnikov Dom, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, Thlaspi rotundifolium

Posted on October 29, 2014 by jonathan trustram

So long on introductions and scene setting I don’t arrive. Now I’ll miss the 7 17 train and have to wait half an hour, and I was so pleased with myself for starting work a couple of times at 7. … Continue reading →

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‘where moth doth not corrupt’ My memories of Yugoslavia are like gold in that they will not tarnish. Unlike the whale bones in the Hvalsalen in Bergen that Kathleen Jamie writes about in Sightlines, they don’t gather dust. They don’t … Continue reading →

Posted on June 1, 2013 by jonathan trustram | Leave a comment

Cypripedium calceolus

Posted on August 28, 2012 by jonathan trustram

I spent a few days in the Gasterntal in Switzerland at the end of June, (in 2012). There in the woods grows the only north European orchid with the extravagant beauty of many tropical orchids. That it is to be … Continue reading →

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this is a patch of the dry garden at St John’s churchyard, Waterloo (by the IMAX cinema), a mixture of chance and design, a happy moment in a season of confusion.

Posted on May 21, 2012 by jonathan trustram | Leave a comment

notes on plants, ideas for the herb garden at St George’s

Posted on January 29, 2012 by jonathan trustram

Ideas for the herb garden at St George’s           ( spring and winter 2011) …and for a Chelsea Fringe walk and talk I went to Kew one summer’s day last year and had a look at the Queen’s Garden, the 17th … Continue reading →

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