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on September 25th, 2020 | Comments Off on FIGS
Figs! So many figs. Usually one or two edible, but that’s all. This summer it bore the usual hard green figs but they ripened. The birds were as excited as we. So, walking under the leaves, each penis and testicle shaped – no wonder Adam clothed himself in one – a heart shaped linden leaf more suitable for Eve? – the sun glowing through, and reaching for a ripe fig, skin dull brownish green but within rings of dull cream and purple surrounding soft wet pinky orange seeds, its secret garden. Food for...
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on June 15th, 2019 | Comments Off on KEEP HOPING
SOPHORA JAPONICA – THE CHINESE SCHOLAR’S TREE
Twelve years ago I planted a Sophora japonica, the Chinese Scholar Tree – I liked to think of writing under its shade, and I’d seen one with pale pink pea flowers. It’s also called the Pagoda Tree. It has pinnate leaves, with leaflets twinning each other giving the whole tree a light airy feel.
My tree grew and grew. Its shade soon covered the terrace and much of the garden. Its leaves blocked the gutters in winter, causing Bob aged 86 to climb a ladder and clear them out. What if he slipped? So last winter I got...
Posted by sarah in Travel Blog, Uncategorized
on November 17th, 2018 | Comments Off on ATHENS – OCTOBER 2018
Greece – the islands, the churches, Athens, the air, the little lanes creeping up the green sides of the Acropolis.
ATHENS
In the isle of Tinos, Bob is feeling unwell, he thinks he may have appendicitis. (When we get home, they say it’s gallstones, but it isn’t and the whole thing fades away. I think he feels he can do more than he’s up to, he gets so excited by the thought of all these places, Delos etc). So, I say we’d better skip any idea of Andros, and get home. I buy ferry tickets to Piraeus, and from there we get a taxi to Athens and the Jason Inn, which has no room, but
sends...
Posted by sarah in Garden Blog, Uncategorized
on August 18th, 2015 | Comments Off on A DAY AT MR FOTHERGILL’S
Good to be here again, in spite of the howl of the A 14, with all these experts and all the veg and flowers bursting from the sandy soil.
Never seen such runner bean flowers, a perfect peachy pink, grown over wigwams. Named Celebration. I’ll grow them here, allowing them to ramble over shrubs and pick them when I felt like it.
All forms and colours of dahlias, but I am not keen on pompon, ball, waterlily, anemone or cactus types – they attract no insects, no bees, and would be like Essex bling in my garden which gets wilder by the day. So, my best dahlia the single Happy Days,...