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About Frost Free Flowers and a Bomb Plot...

johnson posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 3:15 am
I know the mind plays tricks as you get older but when I was a small child Bonfire Night was always bitterly cold and frosty. Afterwards, it would turn milder and wet - my father told us it was becaus...
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Planting Plans: Looking for Inspiration

johnson posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 12:55 pm
I am often asked where do you start with a design. This is a tricky question as I have had relatively little training in this area - I originally designed by trial and (lots of) error like most people...
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Blowing Your Own Trumpet.....

johnson posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 5:38 pm
Regular followers of this blog may have read one I posted in September discussing reasons why I love living in the Cotswold Hills - Three Very Special Cotswold Reasons: Thursday 24th September 2009. T...
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What a Load of Rubbish!

johnson posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 6:23 pm
Recently, I visited a waste recycling centre - what would have been called, until recently, a rubbish tip. But it isn't just political correctness that has brought about this change of name: once ...
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Exmoor - at it's best

johnson posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 4:31 am
Followers of this blog may have noticed a gap - I have been away on Exmoor. How I love that place! First visited just over 40 years ago, it seems to be an unchanging landscape, partly due to it being ...
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Hare Today - Still Here Tomorrow?

johnson posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 5:01 pm
We had seen an adult hare in the garden a couple of times and with some misgiving, having read that they do a lot of damage. What we hadn't anticipated was having a family of them. Over the weeks...
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Three Very Special Cotswold Reasons....

johnson posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 4:39 pm
If you could only choose three things to demonstrate why you love a place, what would they be? This is the tricky question that is being asked by The Guardian in conjunction with enjoyEngland, the Eng...
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Cotswold Dry Stone Walls - Old & New

johnson posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 3:31 pm
You can't get away from stone in the Cotswolds for all the old houses are built of it - and some of the new ones too. It is the stone that gives the villages and towns their beauty and what brings...
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It's daffodil time!

johnson posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 4:56 pm
One of the first signs of Autumn isn't the changing colour of the leaves but the arrival of spring bulbs in the garden centres and the dull thud of the catalogues landing on the doormat. Daffodi...
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Horses - a sure bet to lose money!

johnson posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 4:18 pm
When I'm not gardening I'm invariably doing something with horses or dogs - or preferably both. And as I have been writing recently about the Gatcombe and Burghley Horse Trials it seems a good...
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At the (Hurly) Burghley Horse Trials

johnson posted an article on - Sep 6, 2009, 10:12 am
... ;leaf pit". The photograph of it below hardly does justice to the 4ft drop into the pit - the horse takes off just to the right of the guy, then immediately tackles either one of the two smaller ...
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Breaking Rules for Artistic, Crafty Beans....

johnson posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 10:16 am
I have made it a rule of my blog only to use my own photographs. However, I have recently been sent these three photographs of the most extraordinary craft work - and rules are there to be broken! The...
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I Know a Bank Where The Wild Thyme Grows.....

johnson posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 7:24 am
Was William Shakespeare sitting in our secret valley when he wrote these words? I doubt it, although we are less than 30 miles from his birthplace at Stradford-upon-Avon. But on the slopes above our l...
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Contentment

johnson posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 2:57 am
Life is always so hectic - rushing here, there and everywhere - that it is all too easy to forget to take time out, do nothing but contemplate ..... So sit back, enjoy the summer warmth while you can...
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The House My Parents Built: 200 Years ago....

johnson posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 5:34 pm
Is there such a thing as reincarnation? That, or do ghosts exist, is a question that crops up fairly regularly over dinner with friends. My answer is 'I don't know' - then I tell them abou...
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Up, up and away

johnson posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 10:44 am
It is time to take you on an aerial tour of the Cotswold countryside and gardens and how better than by hot air balloon? This flight was my birthday present last spring, when the countryside was looki...
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The Long Distance Painted Ladies

johnson posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 4:38 pm
Butterflies are the most extraordinary creatures - so delicate to look at, yet they must be as tough as old boots to cope with the rigours of an English summer. For weeks now they have had to endure c...
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Ten Plants Too Many

johnson posted an article on - Aug 10, 2009, 4:22 pm
I find it impossible to imagine a life not being addicted to plants and the natural wonders all around us. So I find it quite difficult when I am asked to create a garden that requires no maintenance....
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Harvest Home - well at least a start's been made

johnson posted an article on - Aug 9, 2009, 5:19 pm
It is a rare sight to see more than one combine harvester in the small sized fields of the Cotswolds. Unlike the fleets of monster machines you see gradually working their way northwards across Americ...
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A day at Gatcombe Horse Trials

johnson posted an article on - Aug 8, 2009, 4:06 pm
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, each year hosts the Festival of British Eventing at her home, Gatcombe Park. Commonly referred to as the Gatcombe Horse Trials, it is unique in testing the skills of...
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Polo - or how to put a hole in your mint

johnson posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 5:26 pm
Cirencester, which is just outside the Cotswold country, is famous for being one of the most important English Roman towns, then known as Corinium. Now it is well known for Polo. Not the round sweets ...
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Blog written by a Garden Designer and countryman, born and brought up in the Chiltern Hills, England but now living and working in the Cotswolds. When not gardening, still outdoors with horses and dogs or watching wildlife or walking. Garden talk, as well as tales of the country and prattle about the area, its history, landscape and people. Other areas include the Chilterns and Exmoor, both of which are known intimately.

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