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!
Broad bean eclipse….
'Tis the week of the broad bean! At last....I've been so looking forward to this moment and while the peas are still coming in thick 'n fast, this week I have to admit my excitement for the first precious broad beans has eclipsed even my passion for peas! Still...
Golden afternoon….
Not that I've been swanning around enjoying it but......as I went to collect the washing from the line, I took the long way 'round, just to catch a glimpse of the Prunus blossom in the Borders....
Eventful season….
I think perhaps 'whirlwind' may be the best descriptor for the first six months of this year! Certainly I seem to have been leaping from one event to the next, either here at Glenmore, or off-site....carting my kit about the countryside! As a result, blog posts...
Farewell to the winter season….
How thrilling it is to be stepping into spring! Not that winter has been dull; in fact, its been anything but. While I spent the month of July in complete hibernation (tap-tap-tapping away - draft one complete but oh so much more to do), mother nature never...
A visual feast….
It was an absolute delight to have Charlotte Thodey here last Friday for her Visual Feast. Oh but it was so much more....what wise words, thoughts and insights. It was truly a feast for the mind and soul. With light levels too low inside and a feast of an edible...
Goodbye Tabby Cat….
While this is perhaps not the very best image of Tabitha, it is one of the last (it could take numerous hours to search through the records for a favourite and so it will suffice...she looks her age & slightly grumpy!). It was taken on one of our last...
Stefano Manfredi’s day at Glenmore….
Back to reality: after a week of catching-up, there was a much anticipated thrill to work towards at the end! I was delighted to welcome Stefano Manfredi to Glenmore once again. He arrived early on Sunday morning, smiling as always and ready for a big day ahead....
Plant days come to an end….
I imagine you might be thinking I'd have had enough by now. But there was one more thing I wanted to do. (Well, in fact there were two, but I was running out of time!). So instead of rushing, I elected to spend a quiet couple of hours, at the Chelsea Physic...
Plant days more….
If you thought the little adventure in France would spell the end of plant days, I'm afraid not....there's more to come! Lots more.....and next on the agenda was the great RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Really it's near impossible to know where to start, and so I just...
Plant days continue….
Oh how I love a gate.....especially one that partially obscures, that draws the eye and suggests that something wonderful is to be discovered when you step through to the other side! The gate to Le Jardin Plume suggests all these things, its rustic simplicity in...
Plant days…
The next day we awoke to glorious blue sky and sunshine, which lit the birds-eye view of a section of one of a pair of herbaceous borders from our bedroom window beautifully! Belonging to dear friend Anna, it's yet to reach its early summer peak, but the...
Escape plan….
Perhaps just a handful of you might have noticed a lack of posts these last couple of weeks (or not, as the case may be!). Well....I took a little trip, just a very quick one, and crammed rather a lot into just eight days on the ground! From the first instant,...
Ode to autumn open garden….
What a weekend! It was crazy, it was huge, it was wet. Oh but it was fun! And it was just wonderful to see so many beaming faces wandering the garden, gumboot-clad feet walking the Labyrinth, visitors juggling brollies with bunches of flowers and discoveries from...
Autumn rose for Open Garden…..
Rain, hail or shine, Open Garden at Glenmore House 2 & 3 May.We've been basking in golden sunshine all Friday afternoon....we have cakes in the oven, flowers, twig furniture, seedllngs, tea and the labyrinth on the croquet lawn, and a piggy ready to...
Labyrinth is back….
A big thank you to Emily Simpson and her friend Desiree de Clerk for marking out the Labyrinth with spray paint yesterday between rain showers. By the time Alex covered their endless swirl with sawdust, rays of late afternoon sunshine set the croquet lawn alight....
Open garden collaborations…
Much of the fun of our Open Garden is in collaborating with friends. It was at our last Open Garden, celebrating 25 years, that I first managed (finally!) to launch a long-held dream to create a fair-like atmosphere at Glenmore, on a very intimate scale. It was...
Hearts and poppies….
I am quite delighted to have a display for this weekend, of delicate (yet sturdy), rusted metal poppies from Wired for Living. Barry and Lee delivered them here for you to see (perhaps to buy!) on their way home to Bendigo after the Collectors' Plant Fair a couple...
Eventful week….
The big week has arrived. Open Garden this weekend, 2 & 3 May. Come what...
Rhubarb and sweet ginger….
This evening's pick....white ginger for the dressing table, rhubarb for breakfast. Sadly I'll be just a bit distracted with preparations for our own open gardennext weekend (you may have noticed!), but if you find yourself at a loose end, I know that Peta Trahar's...