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How does it happen? 25 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
above: The Cornfield Garden, Veddw Many years ago I designed and created the Grasses Parterre at Veddw. By which I mean I covered a small hillside with a design of hedges taken from the local Tithe M...
The Reveal 15 Aug 2013 | 05:22 pm
No, this has not become bad reality tv. This is gardening in the raw. Least it feels like that. This is one time of year when hard work in the garden is unavoidable. The Crescent Border finishes the ...
Throw the Hoe 5 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
I’ve never used a hoe. I bought one originally, thinking it was sort of necessary, a gardener’s necessity. Since when it has just taken up space in the potting shed, like the equally useless riddle. I...
Wild gardening, Veddw style. 19 Jul 2013 | 05:06 pm
At this time of year I make a point of getting away to see what other people are doing in their gardens and it always prompts a great deal of thinking. One thing I got preoccupied with this year was t...
If you tell a lie big enough…by Anne Wareham 9 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Paul Joseph Goebbels This piece was originally published in the Spectator, 29 October 2011 as The Em...
The bars of a prison 20 Jun 2013 | 11:50 pm
There’s a convention in the cultural world that people shouldn’t respond to criticism of their work. That no doubt had its merits once, but the world is livening up and dialogue is increasing everywhe...
Weeds – what’s weeds? 11 Jun 2013 | 06:42 pm
Weeds attract repetitive garden articles, as useful as those about slugs. So I’ll try and spare you the cliches and report my current thinking. A visitor yesterday took me to see the flower of ground ...
Using a matrix 31 May 2013 | 10:12 pm
A matrix is ” A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained”. That’s one, above. Now I know that the usual way of planting in the uk is to buy...
Extra visiting times for Veddw summer 2013 25 May 2013 | 04:57 pm
We have coach parties coming at the times below and you will be welcome to join them at the times shown. 26th May between 10 (am….! ouch) and 12 28th May between 2 and 4. 29th May between 2.30 and 4....
Is it worth removing these flowers? 23 May 2013 | 05:36 pm
Just how important is detail in the garden – or, at what point does it begin to matter?? The planting in the front garden at Veddw at this time of year has quite bold patches of telling foliage and fl...
