My Lewes garden after the rain.
I know there are bigger things to worry about in the World at the moment but here in Southern England, instead of an Arab Spring we have had the great Wet Spring and over the last week it has rained…
I know there are bigger things to worry about in the World at the moment but here in Southern England, instead of an Arab Spring we have had the great Wet Spring and over the last week it has rained…
Sunday morning here in Lewes was sunny and warm until a breeze arrived mid afternoon with some milky clouds. It was the perfect day to admire the cherry blossom which has been especially beautiful this Spring but will peak in…
It is a moistly grey Spring day here in Lewes, UK. One of those days that feels like the moment you hold back tears but feel placidly tranquil too. The light couldn’t be more appropriate for my new tulips that…
We’re enjoying a brief break in the rain here today in Lewes, UK so I’ve taken the moment to photograph the apple and cherry blossom and also the flowering camellia. These fragile blooms delight all the more because of their…
Writing yesterday about T.S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land and how it was, at least partly inspired by the English drought of 1921, I look out on my small Lewes garden and hope that it won’t too turn into…
Spring has definitely arrived here in my small town garden in Lewes, UK. I can throw open the windows and let in sunshine and the fragrant smell of photosynthesis. I have even given the climber roses a few lessons in…
Miniature daffodils, grape hyacinths, light blue chionodoxa and primroses plus a lot of new bulb foliage and sunshine – Springtime in my Lewes garden. As if that isn’t enough to put a contented smile on your face, here is a…
Some mild weather, a light spring shower and some sunshine and look what happens in my small Lewes garden. Yes, it’s camellia time again and this the first bloom is at its most seductive when its blushing red is sprinkled…
It is how they are meant to look, snowdrops in the snow but it doesn’t happen like that here in southern England that much but this year they look just perfect.
After a rain shower a couple of days ago, my little courtyard garden here in Lewes smelt fragrant with mingling rose perfumes. A familiarly sensuous experience in the Summer months but highly unusual for mid-November. Here in Britain, we are…