Welcome to the Lost Gardens of Heligan. It is another garden in restoration that makes you wonder how could an estate of that magnitude disappear into rubble? Money, time, loss of family traditions, a world war-in this case it was all of the above.
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Travelogue: June in the UK
This first travelogue post is photos of those heavenly fragrant English roses all over Wales and England. It does seem unfair to give you a look, but not a smell of how a rose in Britain on a warm day in June fills the air with perfume.
Intervention
The fumes of hundreds of buses and cars fill the hazy air. The fine, sandy grit of the asphalt breaking away with every passing tire, swirls around the ground. Along the front of my studio we extend an invitation to nature by planting a mix of plants in carved out spaces of the concrete sidewalk.…
Spider webs…nature’s alert tones!
Garden folklore says that if spiders weave abundant webs it is the precursor to a rough winter. I am not sure about the webs the spiders have created in your garden, but mine are mesmerizing. The spiders have been very noticeable and obviously up to something. Call it folklore; but there is a scientific term…
Steal inspiration!
Seasons!
Green Friday at Urban Garden Company
Falling
Daylight hours begin to slip away hardly noticed, The days are warm and sunny while nights have a season changing chill, There is a feel to the air as the breeze blows through an open window, The signs are here that we are falling into another season. Autumn has two faces. One side shows…
