Oxford, my Oxford
Outside the Isis Farmhouse, Iffley Lock, Oxford After living in Oxford for c. 15 years, we will be leaving for Sheffield, Yorkshire on Monday. We are planning to go to our favourite Oxford pub one last time tomorrow, and this …
Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Outside the Isis Farmhouse, Iffley Lock, Oxford After living in Oxford for c. 15 years, we will be leaving for Sheffield, Yorkshire on Monday. We are planning to go to our favourite Oxford pub one last time tomorrow, and this …
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that there has been a change at Gwenfar’s Lottie. I’m now Gwenfar’s Garden… Yesterday I finally said goodbye to my lottie. Kevin and I move to Sheffield next Monday, and yesterday we picked …
This is the 3rd in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. Dry and big sky, good for vines Yarra Valley: from De Bortoli winery A visit to Melbourne isn’t really complete without a …
Today was the (almost) annual visit to Kingston Bagpuize gardens in Oxfordshire. They have wonderful drifts of snowdrops, aconites, crocuses. A visit always lifts the spirit at the cold end of winter. A carpet of snowdrops at Church Copse Aconites …
I blogged about this Snowdrop in 2011, so rather than go into the same detail, you can read about it here, and enjoy the pictures below. I’ll be taking a few of these to Sheffield with me.
The first goodbye in Oxford, as the house sale and move to Sheffield gets closer, was to the wonderful Oxford World Development Movement Group. On Tuesday evening we attended our last meeting before going to the pub for a goodbye …
This is the 2nd in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. The Singapore Botanic Gardens takes up a large part of the island of Singapore (183 acres), and is one of Singapore’s greatest …