Today is the last time for the climb in the dark in Edinburgh. NVA’s Speed of Light which is billed as an interactive light show and heralded as ‘state art and spiritual collectivism” . In reality a slow blunder up and down a rocky hill in the dark. Groups of 100 set off together…
Category: Musings
So, David Hockney it is over, but not quite.
Thousands of us stood and jostled in the grand rooms up the stair of the Royal Academy to see the rendering of our countryside by David Hockney. And returned home with eyes on stalks to stare at our surrounding woods and fields. To look at them anew without the mind overpowering the senses. I have…
I cannot speak a word of Turkish
but I know that these are the seeds of desire: Please do follow us!
What is the best way to deal with a lollipop hedge?
Now what is that? I have not taken flight for Honeydukes or gone Munchkin in the head. To keep the rabbits off, the new hedge plants get a bamboo cane to prop them up and over that gets popped the spiral tube. And so the hedgling plant grows away. The tube is see through and…
The very lonely Christmas tree
A Saturday stroll took us past St Pauls Cathedral and the tent village. It is looking permanent and not too uncomfortable. Free books and beanbags to sit on beckoned. An upright piano on a pallet and under awning suggested dancing and carousing later. The plane tree in the middle was celebrating with banners, baby bootees…
Well Hello Window Boxes
Hmmmmmmmmm, those tidy little planted patches outside slick offices. An urban phenomenon. Downtown there are guys who are primping the spotted laurel nestling with showy cyclamens. It all looks so cool. My remit is to go a little outside the oh-so-smart financial areas and see how the free-style window box is making a mark. Well,…
Doing it with vegetables: a bit of a rant on the part of garden designers
The non glossy but very cool Garden Design Journal often has a thought provoking contribution from Tim Richardson. His latest, for September, will raise a show of hands from garden designers who do not belong to the BGP. (Big Gun Posse) As one of those types of designer – ie the slightly disgruntled second division…