The Garden Visitor’s Companion by Louisa Jones
Reviewed by Chris Young.
“The author’s aim is to get the reader thinking, questioning what they see, and how they see it….”
Garden design in Japan and China
by Yue Zhuang.
“The Japanese have an extraordinary tradition of studying and assimilating the good from other cultures…”
Recent Posts from: Veddw
Making Veddw part 4: what did we do next?
We got married Today: We have a wedding Homemade clothes Smelly sheep Piles and piles of wood Tipar (what is tipar??) Making paths Bird Baths and Pergolas Wedding! A fun filled occasion at Newport Register Office. We got the sheep back. It was one way to keep the grass down. Hm. Did you know that […]
Making Veddw Garden: part 3. The Front Garden
Then somehow, I do not know how, I discovered Ruth Stout. We had no internet, no Amazon, the local library was great but not so much for gardening. I used to trawl secondhand bookshops looking for affordable garden books and I must have found her book somewhere. She changed my life and made Veddw possible.
Making Veddw Garden: part 2: we arrive.
. I really had no idea what you had in mind, either. I think if I had, I’d have been freaked out. I don’t actually think you ever said “one day all this will be a garden”. I’d have thought you deranged.
Making Veddw Garden – a Love Story: part 1.
And out of what felt to be the ruins of my life, I turned to an ambition to make another garden.
Ambivalence about Snowdrops
Well, I’m sorry, but I didn’t have a happy Christmas. We were both full of cough and were quite unwell. I have not recovered, and I find myself quite unable to write anything new. So I dipped into The Bad Tempered Gardener to offer you a piece on those plants which gardeners obsess about at this time […]
