From the Blog
My garden in watercolour
I’ve turned some of my favourite garden photos into sketchbook-style watercolours, from the salvias to a passing Red Admiral.
On an adult beginners photography class
On my hobby and interest list is to try my hand at both woodworking and photography. My local college offers a large number of adult
What to do when rain stops play
Rain stopped play? Eight useful things to do instead, from looking after your clubs to a bit of indoor putting.
Then and Now
Lingevres, Normandy, 1944
Knocked-out German Panther tanks on the outskirts of Lingevres, 20 June 1944.
Le Tourneur, Normandy, 1944
A Churchill tank carrying infantry of the Royal Scots Fusiliers passes a destroyed German Mk IV tank in Le Tourneur, 3 August 1944.
Vassy, Normandy, 1944
A Cromwell tank of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division, driving through Vassy, 15th August 1944.
Garden Plants
Persicaria affinis ‘Donald Lowndes’
A neat, mat-forming, semi-evergreen groundcover with spikes of pale pink flowers that darken with age, and dark green leaves that turn red in autumn.
Penstemon ‘Pensham Plum Jerkum’
A semi-evergreen penstemon with plum-purple, white-throated flowers from summer into autumn, loved by bees and butterflies and happy in sun or part shade.
Salvia ‘Pink Pong’
A hardy, shrubby, semi-evergreen sage with small aromatic leaves and deep raspberry-pink flowers from May right through to November, loved by bees.
Salvia Penny’s Smile
A tall, bushy sage with aromatic green leaves and big bright pink flowers that keep coming from late spring right into autumn.