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Ooh, it's frosty out there this morning. And no, I haven't been out with my camera yet. Have to do grown up things like make breakfast and defrost the car. (Oh, and post to the gram!) Also, I unwisely gave myself a haircut at the weekend and now my
Christmas gets all the glory – well, Thanksgiving in the US, too – but to me it always feels as though nature parties right through the whole back end of the year, ending with glistenings and twinklings, but starting here, with
I know I can bang on a bit about how generally fabulous October is, but I can never quite get over the light. And Wednesday was dull and grey, almost as if the weather knows that too much of a good thing might be injurious to what's left of my sanity
A bright and definitive start to autumn today. I marked the occasion by digging up the acanthus that’s been sitting in the same spot for about twenty years, only bothering to flower on three occasions. I think I’ve been more than patient
Been playing with weedy and seedy things. Summer’s end, though some of these – the docks, the aquilegias – have been standing proudly in the beds for months, while others – lemon balm, althaea – have more recently gone o
It’s our good fortune to live no more than a short drive from a number of fabulous and noteworthy gardens, not least among them those at @greatcompgarden. It’s a historic Kent property, so unsurprisingly not without its own Vita link, and
autumn. There, I said it. Though of course, it’s not really autumn yet, unless you’re particularly wedded to the neatness of the meteorological calender in which case, yes, it’s the first day of September, and so absolutely it&rsq