Gateway to Gardening
Gardeners seeking inspiration and ideas for their home plot will assuredly enter a gateway to gardening when visiting RHS Shows. The RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) is Britain’s gardening charity, keeping…
Post-Storm Inspiration – out and about enjoyment
Thinking of one’s garden may be far from the minds of many readers who have been affected by gales and flooding. Personally, I turn for post-storm inspiration to gardens of…
Valentine’s Day Garden Hearts
Out and about with my camera, I sometimes spot strange shapes. Not that I am specifically looking; they fall into view, and then I start searching. It may be that…
Open your eyes !
In the last of my posts on photography in the garden, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes open! Open to the possibilities that lie all around you.…
Pretty Flowers or Sumptuous Veg
In my second post on taking photos in the garden for readers who may like to try a different approach, I am concentrating on decorative aspects the images one might…
Photography on location
Photography in the garden or when out and about has surely never been so easy, whether using an iPhone or iPad or similar, or a simple digital camera. It depends…
May Miscellany
Sunshine at last here in the north Cotswolds (second day running!) and, according to the Met Office weather chart, it’s pretty much stable over the whole of England and Wales.…
Inspiration for your garden
To write yet again about the weather and its impact on gardening in winter would seem to be either lazy, or churlish. Just because the ground is frozen, or it’s…
When dreams become reality
Whether you are reclaiming ground, starting from scratch or re-planning an existing garden, turning dreams into reality requires a certain amount of foresight and strategy. But where to begin, particularly…