The gravel garden at Beth Chatto is inspired by a wadi or dry river bed. I know this because Dan Pearson told us last week at Essex University where he delivered a lecture for the Beth Chatto Education Trust. The reference is clearly drawn with banks and eddies of planting, separated by a wide gravel…
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Wildflowers to be seen near Paris
From the Arc de Triomphe it is less than 40 kilometers to Maule – a leafy village just beyond spitting distance of the capital. It’s on the west side of Paris and in a wide agricultural plain made up of fields of rape, wheat and barley. In between there are strands of forest and lanes…