MICKEY’S BLOG
In the days before Instagram, Mickey kept a regular blog of snippets from Glenmore House.
You may enjoy looking back through them!
Happy Easter….
Don't zinnias have such happy faces? For a simple flower they are extraordinarily intricate, from bud swell to their last legs.....their centres form an exquisite circle that changes subtly over a period of days, like a million flowers within a flower. I find them...
A-plant-hunting we will go….
It's that time of year again.....how thrilling! This weekend, The Collectors' Plant Fair at Clarendon (just near Richmond/Windsor). Time to unleash your plant obsessions and go-a-hunting! I'll very much hope to see you there: Saturday 8am - 4pm and Sunday 9am...
Day of remembrance….
I'm sure some of you may think it an odd thing to do, but for years now I've used Anzac Day as my garlic planting marker....if I haven't got it in the ground by 25 April, it's my priority for the day. I don't consider it odd at all - it's a contemplative kind of...
Autumn flower workshop….
I am delighted in this post, to share the super talented Luisa Brimble's images. I find it near impossible to capture pics on event days as there's just always so much else to do (and I can't equal Luisa's by any measure anyway!). But at last Saturday's Autumn...
Magnificent autumn….
It's hard to believe it's a year since our autumn Open Garden, but all those glorious colours are back again....a breathtaking vision each morning from the east facing verandah. While the Chinese Tallow is, as yet, all green and gold, the Persimmons have leapt...
Dye magic….
When I begin uploading images like this.....sprigs of eucalypt, colanders and lengths of raw silk or wool....you know that India Flint has drifted in on a breeze to deliver an enchanting day with an eager group of participants..... The board is chalked with hints...
Autumn harvest festival….
The pumpkins are, at last, all off their vines as we approach the final weekend of autumn....hardening off in the sun on the stone wall, but I guess I really ought to bring them inside now for safe keeping. And as I prepare for tomorrow's Living Willow Workshop...
Woven willow….
Well....the day began simply enough....with the circle we marked out a week ago and continued to prep, prod and water each day, in hope the ground would be soft enough for today's much anticipated Living Willow Workshop with Penny Simons. We've been hanging out...
Rouse Hill harvest festival….
I'm so embarrassed that it's taken 'til now for me to visit Rouse Hill House, and that it took an invitation from Sydney Living Museums to prompt me into action! But I'm afraid it is the case and I was delighted to have a stall on Sunday at SLM's Autumn Harvest...
Winter’s beginning….
Didn't winter get off to a thoroughly watery start? I still feel so sorry for all those folk who were inundated (any minor problems we had here were nothing by comparison) and at Glenmore, we were just so excited to see that great rush of water...
Gallivanting winter 2016….
Oh my goodness....where on earth to start? It's been awhile since I've written a gallivanting post - I've been rather 'couped-up' for some time! But we had a couple of commitments in England, and so decided to take the opportunity to have a little potter about -...
Gallivanting continues….
Can you imagine my excitement when I picked up an article featuring some delights nearby....to find it contained an image of this perfectly exquisite maze? How on earth I've never discovered it before is beyond my comprehension! Oh and Larry's eyes did roll...
Gallivanting more….
And then we set off on a garden adventure like no other. For very many years.....I've wanted to visit Tresco Abbey Garden in the Isles of Scilly, which are not easy to reach (scattered as this archipelago is) off the southernmost tip of the Cornish coast. It was...
Backroads and byways avoiding the highways….
One of the most enchanting aspects of Cornwall are its narrow roads that lead to some of the most romantic views of fields, coastline and sandy coves....with almost always a walk you may choose to take in order to explore more closely. Much of the Roseland...
Cornish wrap….
Wherever we were, from rooftop terraces to tiny pocket-handkerchief gardens clutching to the shoreline, there were plants galore. Cordyline and aloe, palms and roses, profusions of fuchsia, honeysuckle and pots of lavender. Even the rooftops don't escape some kind...
Love a flower show….
After all the delights of the countryside, there was a manic (though brief) interlude of city frenzy, that incorporated a visit to the Hampton Court Flower Show.....just because it happened to be on and I'd never been before. I missed Chelsea this year, so out of...
Hot climate sojourn….
There followed a few days of real mid-winter thawing out (lovely though England was, it truly was only a few degrees warmer than our winter!), as we headed off to stay with friends on a spec in the Mediterranean sea. Where the waters were blue and landscape...
One last gallivanting post….
About a garden that just about has it all......to me. Set against a charming old farmhouse of whitewashed stone with dark green painted timber shutters. Where delightful troughs..... and terracotta pots are filled with lavender. And a series of terraces, each...
Home to a wintry blast….
What joy it was to return to the garden and discover these beauties lying in wait....the reward of all that work at the beginning of autumn! Already my head is well out of the clouds, our first events of the coming season approach, and the thrilling build-up...
The eagle has landed….
On Thursday last week, an unexpected email arrived on my desktop. 'The eagle has landed' was typed into the subject box and the sender was my delightful publisher at Murdoch Books, Diana Hill. A very few advance copies had arrived in their office and she had...