It was the South End Green Fair today – a generally very pleasant and jolly affair with lots of goodies to eat – only slightly dampened by being the first day on which we have had any serious rain for about a month! (Do think the weather gods could have been bit kinder...) …
Michelle's garden
On the re-sexing of trees and other matters respiratory
I spent much of last weekend discussing the re-sexing of trees. Not your everyday Sunday papers conversation - but fascinating none the less. How come? Well, I had staying as house guests Tom Ogren, world authority on allergen-free gardening, and Nigel Clarke, garden-centre …
Poppy planting at the Tower of London
Blood Swept Lands and a Sea of Red – the truly amazing installation at the Tower of London created by the ceramic artist Paul Cummins and hundreds and thousands of volunteers – is still creeping its way round the wide grass moat that surrounds the old grey walls of the Tower. …