Review of Rhapsody in Green by Charlotte Mendelson The only limit to your garden lies at the boundaries of your imagination, according to the American landscape designer Thomas D Church, and if you’re an author and a novelist, as Charlotte Mendelson is, then you probably have a pretty expansive imagination. Rhapsody in Green is about … Continue reading Rhapsody in Green
This is the bloom of a birthday girl rose, printed and overlaid with a handwritten beautiful quote I came across the other day. Roses as people, when I started to think about the concept, it seemed that plants as people or reminders of people was apt for my garden. The rose in this image was … Continue reading I would like my roses to meet you…
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2018/feb/09/international-garden-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures The Guardian published the results of the International Garden Photographer of the year, which had me sighing wistfully over these stunning images and then looking askance at my own tiny, wind-battered and green-with-winter-damp patch of garden and wishing I had acres of space. Until I recall my friend, who has to spend five hours … Continue reading Garden envy?
I have set myself a task this month to create daily a garden quote. I have a lovely old book entitled A Gardener's Bouquet of Quotations. Even the title is evocative 'bouquet' not collection, 'quotations' not quotes. I picked it up last summer from a fabulous secondhand book shop in an old stables at Belton … Continue reading Many things grow in a garden…
I wanted to take a break from writing this weekend, so started work on a project I've had in mind for a couple of weeks. I got the idea of an overarching branch from an Erte illustration I came across in an Art Deco book, and the rest was organic and painted as I went … Continue reading Painted garden journal
The House with the Blue Door 