The Solitary Walker

Climbing rose 'Golden Showers'. Dahlia. This morning really felt like autumn, with fog in the air and dewdrop-beaded spi...

Digging the first crop of second early potatoes (Charlotte variety) . . . Next to them in the trug are some freshly-picked, tender rocket ...

Zen pond. From left to right: petunia, nasturtium, azalea, hosta, Buddha. The middle of May — probably my favourite month — and I'...

Bee fly. Early this morning I heard a knocking noise coming from the kitchen. I ignored it, thinking it was the central heating pipes...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. CICERO One world in two, both intertwined: /  A double helix of grace ...

Zen pond. Crab apple blossom against a rare blue sky.

Inspired by English cottage gardens and cottage gardeners. Wallflowers may be old-fashioned, and may not get asked to dance as ofte...

Inspired by Talking 37th Dream (Rumors of Peace) .

Frogs doing what comes naturally. (Click on the pic for a closer view!) There's a promise of spring in the garden: the first butt...

              If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?   PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY            In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in w...

It's been a great year for butterflies in the garden. Here's a Red Admiral on the plum tree. Red Admirals and Commas were attracted...

Il faut cultiver notre jardin. VOLTAIRE We've seen whirligig beetles, pond skaters, water boatmen and other bugs in our newly-refu...

When we moved into our hundred-year-old house fourteen years ago, we knew the garden would eventually need some serious reconstruction. It ...

Gardener at work. We're completely redesigning and replanting our garden at the moment — a project that won't be finished unti...

The Corsican pine in our garden, planted short-sightedly by the people who lived here before us, was getting bigger every year. Already 40 ...