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
Choisya ‘Sundance’ (Mexican Orange Blossom)
A golden-leaved evergreen shrub with sweetly scented, star-shaped white flowers in spring.
Fuchsia microphylla (Small-leaved Fuchsia)
A small-leaved, semi-evergreen shrub with tiny pink-red tubular flowers from May to November, followed by black berries.
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.