Mid Elm gardens

03/07/2022

Summer weekend visit to see the delightful vistas at West Green House Gardens. As ever, a stunning garden to enjoy!

26/06/2022

Sunday morning gardening at home listening to Gig on the Green Yateley

25/06/2022

Bog Garden

20/01/2022

Digging up more ...
The 's at 74 High Street stocked supplies of "One & All" seeds & fertilisers by the Agricultural & Horticultural Association Ltd of London. The Garden Museum holds a 1912 copy of the Association's Annual "For Amateurs & All Garden Lovers".

The cover of the 1912 annual, 'One & All Gardening, Annual of Amateurs & All Garden Lovers'. Published by Agriculture & Horticultural Association Ltd. Gift...

18/01/2022

Digging up
A photograph c1913 of 74 High Street, , now Sydenham Road.
My ancestors' Greengrocer's, owned by William Lutkin (x2 great grandfather) and assisted by his son Walter, shown here in the doorway of their immaculately ordered shop.

15/01/2022

New Year Amaryllis

31/01/2019

Two years of study with The Horticultural Correspondence College was successfully completed in December. The college is accredited by the Royal Horticultural Society, with the study programmes following current RHS qualification synopses. The courses stand alone as thorough and in-depth analyses of their respective subjects, in addition to serving as preparation for taking the RHS examinations. www.hccollege.co.uk

30/01/2019

Enchanting garden, extensive plant nursery and delightfully "shabby-chic" stocked shop.
www.kingjohnsnursery.co.uk

18/05/2018

Quote from Sylvia Crowe's book on Garden Design (1958):
"Gardens are the link between men and the world in which they live, for men in every age have felt the need to reconcile themselves with their surroundings, and have created gardens to satisfy their ideals and aspirations... and our own craving to grow plants as a counter-poise to technology, are all expressions of an ideal and the need for compensation; and the more complex a civilisation becomes, the more deeply this need is felt."
How true.

18/05/2018

A couple of floral delights from my own garden.
White Oriental Poppy alongside Sambucus nigra and Allium Purple Sensation against a Holly fern.