The twelfth week of watching colour and beauty emerge on each and every day of this surreal spring Sunday 7 June Today was a day for admiring the river - its bank and its wildlife The blue campanula is in full flower, buzzing with hundreds of worker bees, and setting off the gunnera in all … Continue reading Week 12: Andover Garden Watch 2020 – a very special spring

The eleventh week of watching colour and beauty emerge on each and every day of this surreal spring Sunday 31 May - Whitsunday: a hot day just before some easing of lockdown  In my book, spring ends on midsummer’s day, 21 June; but almost everything in the garden is behaving as though summer has already … Continue reading Week 11: Andover Garden Watch 2020 – a very special spring

The tenth week of watching colour and beauty emerge on each and every day of this surreal spring David spent several years in the late 90s working up his knowledge of plants and garden design in his characteristically thorough way, and creating several gardens  - for us and for friends (who moved regularly enough to … Continue reading Week 10: Andover Garden Watch 2020 – a very special spring