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Lucy Allen comes to GardenRant this week from Substack, and from a sweltering and very dry United Kingdom. –MW
I know. We are all far too hot. But I am going to talk about it, all the same.
During this latest heatwave – flipping through magazines; trying to sit indoors instead of going into the garden – I found I couldn’t ignore a little voice that’s b...
It’s not always delightful, being in the garden at the moment here in Wales. We have severe drought. You may find plants in sudden collapse, certainly not happy, and the heat and humidity are horrid. But at night it cools and there is pleasure to be had.
I’ve been experimenting with taking photographs – on my phone – at night. Or in the gloaming, when suddenly things ...
In the early 1970s I was fortunate to share a charming small brick farmhouse with a rotating cast of friends in rural Central Kentucky. The rent was $60.00 per month for three of us. The house sat atop a hill near the Kentucky River.
There was no running water. A cistern collected rain from the roof that birds shit on. Ou...
I’ve had a rather adventurous decade as a professional gardener. Lots of great experiences of course,
but some difficult ones and even one that left me concerned for my life.
I’m not quite sure how I’ve been so unlucky; I speak to other freelancers who have gone decades
with nothing beyond a few unpaid bills to worry about. I’ve never met anyone else who ha...
After my emotional story last week of being “Banished from the garden I cleared,” I have news about the other large garden I’ve adopted. (Technically, I’m a “caretaker” of this garden – the sign on the left says so. It’s the landscape around the office bu...