Apricot Time
An apricot is not an apricot is not an apricot! But a good apricot is heaven! Delicate, subtle, quiet, and understated, to think of dying without having tasted a good apricot! But oh, what grief! to know your good apricot you have to have tasted disappointing...
In Norfolk
Here I am visiting a wholesale nursery in Norfolk where they unusually grow plants in fields, and also on a very large scale beneath the huge East Anglian skies. On a wonderful summers day, there were fields of geraniums, iris, astilbe, salvias, hemerocallis, stachys...
The Winter Solstice
The sun trying very hard to get through. Misty, mizzley, damp, cold, but completely inspiring. A magical moment of the year. One of my most favourite days and everywhere is sea lavender and thrift to come and seagulls and seals now. A world of promises for the year...
Iris Fields
A glorious Bank Holiday morning – the air was balmy, brimming with birdsong and the soft powdery scent of Irises. Almost 200 varieties of iris are available to see and purchase at Wootten’s Nursery. Iris ‘Empress of India’ really sang to me – very healthy and a...