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“A room of one’s own… What [these words] propose to anyone who admits them into the space of a daydream, is a place of solitude a few steps off the beaten track of everyday life.” So wrote Michael Pollen in A Place of My Own. And he wasn’t talking about greenhouses. But he could have…
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To have made six gardens in five climate zones looks very like extravagance, but to have possessed a greenhouse in only one may be regarded as a misfortune. Particularly, as I realized with some shock, that greenhouse was in the garden where I least needed it – Norfolk, England; aka Britain’s Sunshine Capitol, and with…
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Welcome to Garden Pages, my ongoing flirtation with the digital me. Blogging has always struck me as a form of self-love, which can be as innocuous as me describing what is blooming in my garden, or as tedious as me blathering on about organic gardening, or farm to table…etc etc. I mean, who cares? Where…
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Surprises never cease to surprise me. I had just about forgotten that I had started this blog, given the avalanche of activity over the past two years. When low and behold comes this email asking me to attend to a comment. I’d misnamed Sandra Pope as Jane Pope in my last (2-year-old) blog. I have…
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Working with plants and soil takes us out of ourselves and our daily rut, letting us connect not just with nature, but with our inner child. And goodness knows, in these straitened times we need to remember, and embrace, the simple joy of simple pleasures. I’m about to move into a new house. It was…