Category Archives: Eldenhurst

I have had two or three in my time, and they hate doing it in the middle of the day.  Garden photographers always prefer to hot-foot it to my door before dawn – or when sun, slanting over a sea of catmint and alliums, is definitely over the yard arm.  The most dedicated was perhaps Jonathan Buckley.  When he lived in Dulwich, forContinue reading “Happy Snappers”

I don’t have a very elegant camera, so I am finding it really hard to get a picture (as promised) that does this wonderful plant justice. However, you can see the dark buds and stems here – quite unlike L. grandiflora: (Click on it for a bigger picture…)

My village, Wadhurst in East Sussex, has just had its charity Open Gardens weekend and – probably to quote a hundred local newspaper reports on similar events this month, ‘the rain held off’ – just.  The lack of precipitation was indeed a mercy afer last year’s wash out – but for those of us who bravely opened ourContinue reading “Wadhurst Open Gardens”

I have been having a go at my dandelions. My lawn is dreadful – basically a bit of weedy, mossy (mostly) green stuff that was in a terrible state when I took it over two years ago because of neglect, shade, too many tree roots, compacted clay soil… all the usual problems. Just by mowingContinue reading “As long as it’s green…”