Letters to garden makers

Dear reader, While the gardening world pours over Chelsea, I pour over art, gardens, hills, vales and sea. 12/05/18 On the Lleyn near Rhiw This Art Nouvaux room with its fireplace in a cottage made for two. I am nearly dead like Gilbert and George. Taught once by a Royal Academician With a balding head He told me that I could draw better than him By way of encouragement But not my path then. Now my path brings me to this small den A break away from the valley And the rigour of waiting As a painting of mine travels to Crickhowell. Each time an artist or poet writes or draws a line They hope it will carry them to a place of love acceptance and even praise Much like the two men hung with medals for being one voice of rebellion It's all fake really - our rebellion We all need rest and sweet dreams. 13/05/18 Peninsular Tales There are those that would always overshadow But they are shadows of my own making I had no sweet dreams Just murderous...

Dear reader, This was an overcast day, but here is the current state of affairs in the Coal Tip Garden. Paul

Dear reader, I think I may be an outsider - I have come to this conclusion because it has dawned on me (very very slowly) that I really am ignorant of gardening in the sense of true horticulture and proper husbandry of plants and beds and borders. What is even worse is the fact that I don't seem to care too much about it - obviously not enough to go and learn from the experts. I don't do lawn care, I allow invasive plants to invade and I like weeds. What has brought on this fit of anxiety again ? Opening for the NGS. Being in the Yellow Book meant that this year I was offered 3 free copies of 'The English Garden'. I took up the offer and now wish I hadn't. Every garden in there is perfectly presented, and each edition is full of those jobs to do for the season. I have sown my Higgledy Garden bee friendly seed collection in my newly restored (Welsh vernacular style or cobbled together) greenhouse, and I have thinned out the weeds including cree...