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.
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.
The Plants
Buddleja davidii (Butterfly Bush)
A deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-purple, orange-eyed flowers from July to October, attracting butterflies, bees and other insects.
Salvia ‘Angel Wings’
A compact salvia with pink and blush-white winged flowers from early summer until the first frosts.
Abelia × grandiflora (Glossy Abelia)
A graceful semi-evergreen shrub with white trumpet flowers and lingering salmon-pink sepals from midsummer well into autumn.
Penstemon ‘Summertime Pink’
A long-flowering, semi-evergreen penstemon with soft rose-pink, pale-throated flowers from June to October, good in pots or at the front of a border.