It's the details in nature that have always completely fascinated me and I am perpetually amazed and grateful at the abundance of beautiful wild plants and creatures, with their extroidinary designs surrounding us.  There is a passage in the preface of this 1930's book 'The Look-About-You...

Whilst some of the flowers in the garden continue  to flower abundantly, others seem to be coming to the end of a floral burst. The sweet peas are a joy and the pinks are producing loads more flowers this year too, but the Campanula seem to...

So, driving back from the shops, I see this extroidinary display of wild flowers in a very un-extroidinary part of Brighton...

Ever since I was really young I’ve had a fascination for grasses. I was always amazed that when just sitting in a park or playground I was surrounded by so many different species and when I was about 6 I asked for The Observers Book of...

I  am amazed ( and very happy! ) that for the first time EVER this year, I have managed to grow Sweet Peas with any degree of success.  I've been dying to have the delicate smell of my own, home grown ones around the house; it must...

I did a lot of driving over the weekend, and it was lovely to come back with some family roses...