Floristry at Chelsea 2016
Chelsea Flower Show is all about the plants and flowers. Much is made of The Show Gardens and the Great Pavilion with the floristry often over-looked.
I regularly attend...
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Festival of Flowers
Festival of Flowers
Each year St Mary's Church in Longcot participates in Oxfordshire Artweeks with a Festival of Flowers as part of supporting village artists. This year it also happens to...
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Garden Photography Course
Garden Photography Course
Over the past few years I have been a frequent visitor to some of the gorgeous Cotswold gardens open to the public. I love to photograph them and blog about them. Over the...
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Colesbourne Park Arboretum
Colesbourne Park Arboretum.
Deep in the heart of the Churn Valley in the Cotwolds is a hidden gem, Colesbourne Park Arboretum.
Colesbourne Park Arboretum is known as "England's greatest Snowdrop...
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My Flower Patch
I first met Sara Willman in July when she came on one of my Macro Taster Workshops and brought her own flowers with her. I soon discovered she was an Artisan Flower Grower who ran My Flower Patch and...
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Sudeley Castle & Gardens
Sudeley Castle & Gardens.
Sudeley Castle & Gardens is the quintessential Englishman's Castle and steeped in so much history you couldn't make it up. It has seen virtually everything from...
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Old Wardour Castle
Old Wardour Castle
Old Wardour Castle are the remains of what was a unique 14th Century hexagonal castle.
Built in 1395 with a lakeside setting and surrounded by woodlands. The unusual structure...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015
Following my successful trip to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2014, I couldn't wait to go back again but was erring on the side of caution; would the first visit be the best? could it be topped? would...
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Cotswold Lavender
Cotswold Lavender is a family run farm located in the heart of the Cotswold Hills at Snowshill, just down the road from Batsford Arboretum.
Hill Barn Farm, the home of Cotswold Lavender, used to...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014
RHS Chelsea Flower Show for beginners.
I've wanted to go to RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the past 20+ years and have never gotten around to it. As I approach my 50th Birthday I decided that it was...
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