Friday, 31 May 2019

Old Swan House Garden What's New 2019

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The summerhouse catches the eye from the shade of the orchard Gardens are constantly evolving, even if the gardener does nothing more...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019

The Therapeutic Power of Gardens - Oliver Sacks

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As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible....
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Chelsea Flower Show 2019

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The Facebook garden For more photos, click here 
Tuesday, 7 May 2019

Favourite Gardens - Rotherfield Park

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Rotherfield Park Rotherfield Park was built from 1815 - 1821 and has been lived in by the Scott family since 1860. The current o...
Friday, 26 April 2019

Penny Lawford 1944 - 2019

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Penny in a nighdress and tiara Penny entered our lives when she married my cousin Mike Lawford and came to live at West Tisted. The...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Favourite Poetry - John Henry Newman's 'Dream of Gerontius'

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The full text of the 'Dream of Gerontius' by John Henry Newman can be found  here  This is the opening Stanza: GERONTIUS...

Favourite Music - Dame Janet Baker

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I have listened to this BBC programme about Dame Janet Baker with enormous pleasure and interest. She was the natural heir to the ...
Friday, 12 April 2019

Old Swan House Garden in April 2019

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 The garden is waking up to spring and the huge hazel is coming out. The euphorbias are already in full bloom and seem not ...
Monday, 1 April 2019

Stockbridge Gardens Open for the NGS 2019

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The grass garden at Old Swan House The National Gardens Scheme began in 1927 as a means of raising money for district nurses, by pers...

How To Be a Bore About Saving Almost Anything

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The original caption is 'The Importance of Not Being Intellectual', but it could just as well be 'The importance of Not Being...