Garden
Sculpture in the Garden
And what a beautiful garden it is. Here are images of my work at the Streamside Sculpture Trail at RHS Garden Harlow Carr. I walked the streamside path myself – it took ages as I stopped and took in the beauty of the planting in this garden and marvelled at the creativity and talent […]
Otter Streamside
Today I delivered and set up pieces at RHS Garden Harlow Carr for the Streamside Sculpture Trail which is on during June. At the gate I met a similarly loaded vehicle, with sculpture padded and strapped for the journey – and in the gardens other sculptors busy setting out their pieces. One of my […]
Bold Forms and Fine Foliage
Today I bought a little fern in a pot. A love for them must run in the family – this is a view of my great-grandfather’s greenhouse. He took the picture too – photography was another of his passions. Ferns found in stone are a glory too, the fossils showing such crisp detail […]
Autumn Pickings
As Autumn colours emerge I’m tempted by the season’s offerings and collect snippets from the garden. Berries, seed-heads, golden leaves intense and bright. I’m trying out my single-stem stone vases (also in autumnal hues) to show off my pickings.
NGS Open Garden
Looking out at the garden I see a bit of a wilderness – it is neglect – untouched by my gardening hands for a while, yet it is busy doing its thing very happily without me. A wild rose has self-seeded and is robustly scampering over everything so beautifully with pink delicate flowers that I’m […]
The Voice of Water
Where the silver wave with sweetness fed the tiny lives of grass I was bent above, my image mirrored in the fleeting glass, And a voice from out the water through my being seemed to pass. These are a few lines from George William Russell’s peom The Voice of the Waters. He’s talking […]
A Meadow of Red Campion
There is a walk I like doing, down the lane and back along a narrow footpath edging the fields surrounding the village. As I join the footpath I’m met with a glorious swathe of pink – a meadow planted with Red Campion – looking so utterly beautiful that I had to go and sit by it. Occasionally there […]
Spring Plant Fair – Scampston
On Sunday I’m at the Spring Plant Fair at Scampston – with these stone pots and a little collection of pieces made in stone for the garden. Spring Plant Fair Sunday 31st May (10am – 4pm) Scampston Hall Malton North Yorkshire YO17 8NG
I didn’t know spiders ate snails
Whilst taking refuge in the greenhouse during this morning’s hail-storm, I noticed this spider. It had snails caught in its web – I’ve never seen this before – do spiders eat snails? I can’t think why the snail would wander into a web – or perhaps it was ambushed and then secured by silk. I wonder […]
Planting in swirls
Stone bowls waiting – at rest in the sunshine after being hollowed and fettled. Waiting for gardening hands to fill them with plants. Planting in swirls.