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Busy Doing Nothing
Unlike my week, which is packed to say the least, the weekend was one of those rare and precious occasions on which there was little to do in the garden other than sit back and enjoy. This is not a...
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The Very Best of 2012 – A Year In Pictures
Where has 2012 gone? Despite so many memorable occasions – the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, our trip to beautiful Burma, the birth of this blog (!?) – the year has flown by and is almost at...
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The Thames Garden Bridge – Elevated Eden or Floral Folly?
Great cities have one thing in common – ambition. Some display this tastefully, others gaudily, but all want to be bigger, higher, newer and more culturally vibrant than the other. London, already a...
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London 2012 – Let the show begin!
You saw it here first. Lovely planting on the Olympic Park ready for tonight’s rehearsal of the opening ceremony. Watsonia, Agapanthus, Dierama, Diascia and gladioli amongst others. Very South African...
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London 2012 – The Opening Ceremony
By amazing chance we are back in Stratford again, but this time for the real opening ceremony. The atmosphere is already incredible. The world is in for a treat tonight. The plants I photographed on...
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Very British Bouquets
What a day for Team GB’s athletes! 2 golds and now 11th in the medals table. Hopefully this is just the start. Whilst I am no sportsman, I can’t believe how much I am enjoying these games and how...
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Gold Medal Gardens – North America
As the “Golden Games” draw to a close there is a sense of great pride and celebration in the UK. We have diving and the 5,000 metres to look forward to tonight, so perhaps Team GB has time for a...
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Gold Medal Gardens – Southern Hemisphere
Visitors to the Olympic park via the bustling Stratford entrance were for two weeks greeted by the showiest of the London 2012 gardens, representing the Southern Hemisphere. To my mind these were...
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Chelsea 2013: East Village Garden Snapshot
I suspected it may be among my favourite show gardens, and it is. Not least because, unlike some of its peers, most of the flowers are in full bloom in spite of the chill weather. Designed by Michael...
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Remembering London 2012
This time last year I was already in the Olympic stadium, watching the warm up for the opening ceremony. Unlike today, the skies were a brooding grey, shedding the odd few spots of rain. The world...
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