Over There TO Here

• Old but new Algarve garden 2 years ago If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll often read in my captions about the latest plans and work in my garden. Before I start writing posts about the plants I grow and the seasonal flower beds I’m creating, I wanted to share with you the ‘before’ scenes and layout of my Algarve garden. It...
• Wild Flowers Up Close 3 years ago If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable… then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost...
• That Winter Spring Thing 6 years ago Just as we were expecting spring to arrive here in West Sussex winter descended upon us. Throughout the winter months I had hoped for some snow and then it finally turned up at the end of February and again in March. The snow storm known as the ‘Beast from the East’ meant we had that ... Read...
• My botanical desk - Winter nature diary 6 years ago “Determined that this diary should start off with a bit of flourish, I sallied forth on this fine winter’s day to see what I could find in bloom. The answer was, quite a lot.”  Richard Adams, A Nature Diary from Winter An anthology for the changing seasons“ It’s easy to assume that all...

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