The French Idea of gardening... I have recently returned from a wondering holiday in southwestern France. The villagers produce an altogether charming effect, comparable with our own cottage gardens at home. The village street is lined with pots, standing grouped around the doorways or rising step by step up the outside staircase when there is one … Continue reading Waging a Cold War…On Bunnies
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Toxic Beauty
It is perhaps too ordinary to appeal to the real connoisseur- a form of snobbishness I always find hard to understand in gardeners... -Vita Sackville-West January 1st, 1950 I've often thought Vita wouldn't approve of my growing pussy toes. After all, they're just an ordinary wildflower. But then I read the above passage. Of course … Continue reading Toxic Beauty


