Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
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....
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
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...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
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...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
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...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
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...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
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,...
