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The Tattooed Garden.
"A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition." ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno Apart from music, my two other interests are tattoos...
Wordless Wednesday: Mahonia in the Snow.
The year ahead.
Christmas has been and gone, the new year is now here, there is doom and gloom everywhere on the news and many of us are feeling the post Christmas blues. To top it off, since the Christmas festivities we have seen very little of the sun. So I thought I would do a...
Wordless Wednesday: Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’
2012 – The end of the…..
Drought!! The only thing that ended this year, was the prolonged spell of dry conditions, that had affected many of us in the UK since March 2010. We had very little rain between 2010 and June 2012, with only the odd wet spell that amounted to very little; including...
The Christmas Rock Garden.
This is really a 'Rock Garden VI', but as with all these music compilations ... you always get a Christmas edition. For those of you who have had the misfortune in reading these before, you already know the way it works. If this is your first time, it is just a sad...
It’s a Kind of Magic.
"From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye." - Katherine S. White Now there is one place I can lose myself in and that place is the garden. It is a...
Wordless Wednesday: A Wintery Wednesday 2
Wordless Wednesday: A Wintery Wednesday
Do Gardeners Hibernate?
"Winter came down to our home one night Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow, And we, we were children once again." ~Bill Morgan Jr. Ah the Beginning of December .... the leaves are nearly all down and raked up, the spring bedding is all in, so all...
Wordless Wednesday: Arbutus unedo
Read more on Wikipedia Photos taken by Dennis Footman - The Tattooed Gardener
The Devil’s Garden.
'Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short... Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty six.' Revelations CH XIII...
Grasses and no Bamboos
Why no Bamboos? They are often put together, but that one is for another day. Now these types of grasses give me far fewer problems than the types of grass in our lawns. There's no weekly mowing, feeding is minimal, no scarifying, no aerating and they are...
Wordless Wednesday: Autumn
Wordless Wednesday: Vitis coignetiae
War and Flowers (Flanders Poppy)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved,...
Wordless Wednesday: Chrysanthemum ‘Emperor of China’
The Harlequin Glorybower.
When the rest of the college is looking like this..... And this........ There is one particular shrub that is not alway's commonly known, that is looking rather spectacular ..... Clerodendrum trichotomum var. fargesii (Harlequin Glorybower). A true gem of the garden,...
