Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
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...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Delightful Discoveries
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...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Delightful Discoveries
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...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Delightful Discoveries
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...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Delightful Discoveries
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,...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Special Events
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...