Victoria's backyard

A subtropical suburban oasis in Wandsworth, south-west London designed to defy the depredations of global warming, garden pests and kids without recourse to carbon emissions, chemicals or cranial damage.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

For future reference, see Awkward Hill

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I moved from Wandsworth, in south-west London, in November 2012, and I now live in the Cotswolds. You can read about my garden there at Tal...

Friday, January 25, 2013

That "leave the garden for a year" rule

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Running two blogs is trickier than I thought. When I started up my new blog, Tales from Awkward Hill , about life in Bibury, Gloucestershire...

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Goodbye to the Backyard

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As some of you will know, I have sold my house in London and I am moving to Gloucestershire. I've been a bit superstitious about telling...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Revenge of the Yellow Book

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Anne Wareham tells me that her garden, Veddw , has been dropped from the National Garden Scheme's Yellow Book next year, apparently as a...

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Harvest festival for hipsters

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I had a rather novel experience yesterday evening - I went to an RHS show and found I was one of the oldest people there. It was the RHS Lon...

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Britain in Bloom

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I'm ashamed to admit I've never been to the Channel Islands . My knowledge of them is limited to the 1980s BBC detective series Berg...

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