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Uncle Rob’s woodpile

I have a bruncle — an uncle-in-law, really — who loves to work with natural elements:  building wooden canoes, constructing stone walls, framing art, and hammering together a remarkable tree house for...

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Book Review – Landscaping for Privacy by Marty Wingate

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Why so quiet …

…because it’s winter and in winter, I go underground and write. “How do you do write?” a garden historian friend asked me last week over coffee in Exeter. Easy. As Ernest Hemingway said, “There is...

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Favourite Garden of 2012

Slate skies over my part of England have convinced me to stay indoors this last day of 2012.  Which is fine.  Such cheery forces have worked over the English psyche for eons to create famously witty...

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Frost(y) revelations

I am enigmatically wired to rise before dawn, even before birds open their tiny eyelids, fragile as tissue paper, but it’s comforting when I finally hear bird songs, crystalline and questioning, coming...

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Le Quattro Volte

I’ve been honoured to periodically provide enrichment courses for sixth-formers at a local school — writing to digital media to film appreciation. The last course at an all-girls school was a four-part...

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Plaintive Spring Calls

Just as spring coaxes birds to nest, it also awakens a need in many to examine their gardens. Horrified at spaces that have looked like a bad case of bed hair for one season too long, they pick up...

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Gardens of the Socialist Democratic Republic of Berkeley

One of the best parts of attending UC Berkeley was living in North Berkeley.  There the proliferation of individually-designed Bernard Maybeck gems of the Arts and Crafts movement, from the lowlands to...

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Terribly charming

Of all my terribly charming traits, one of the most terrible is obsessive advanced planning. A trip to California? Bags packed a week in advance.  A walk across England? Ten thousand lunges and B&B...

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Birth & Death of A Naturalist

Seamus Heaney 1939-2013 Given my work in writing and landscapes, it’s no surprise that poets and naturalists have most influenced the way I think.   Iconoclasts and observers of nature and culture,...

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