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Quotes

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
-Charles Dickens

Serendipity

old vicarage hotel gardens bridgwater

old vicarage hotel gardens Bridgwater

I dislike hotels as a rule and the uncertainty of what to expect when you arrive only adds to the bother. Whether it be hotel or cottage holiday break, I could not care less about wi-fi, tv, swimming pool or the like. I just want a clean, comfortable bed for the night in relatively quiet and pleasant surroundings. Thus last month when it came to staying away on a Tai Chi weekend I opted for the ‘Old Vicarage’ hotel, Bridgwater primarily because it had such lovely gardens. My guess was that any hotelier with such an obvious love for plants must surely be ‘mein host’. I was not far wrong either – neither the hotel nor the gardens disappointed. Read More…»

Museday 1/7/12: An Encounter

blue sky art effect

ONCE on the kind of day called “weather breeder,”1
When the heat slowly hazes and the sun
By its own power seems to be undone,

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Sea change

woodbridge garden flowers

Woodbridge garden flowers

The unrelenting, cold wet days since April had even the hardiest of gardeners struggling to be out and about and yet, despite this lack of intervention, the  procession of plants pressed on regardless. Feeling somewhat redundant I sought a brief change of outlook on the East coast, coincidental with escape from the hyperbole that is Chelsea flower show . Read More…»