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, October 30, 2010

This is what happens when ....

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... you're busy helping to launch a new newspaper. The tulip bulbs, which arrived about a month ago, remain unplanted. The garden remain...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Getting high with the king of grass

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I spent last week in New York City. I'd promised my daughter ages ago that I'd take her there for her 16th birthday. Unfortunately, ...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Just because ...

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The sun is shining ... ... and this Virginia creeper looks so pretty (even though it has absolutely no business climbing up the bamboo) ... ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Ideas for Adrian's garden

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My colleague Adrian, like many Londoners, has a small garden - a shady, brick-paved courtyard. (That's not his on the left, by the way, ...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

An Exotic day at Great Dixter: Part II

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Lunch at Great Dixter was cheese tart, with green salad leaves and Pink Fir Apple potatoes, those knobbly ones that look a bit like Jerusale...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

An Exotic day at Great Dixter

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It's been a busy weekend. First, I spent Friday in Oxford with my daughter. It was the university's open day, so we were looking at ...
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