Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, who for the last 10 years has been working on an astonishing project to document and photograph the oldest living things in the world. To be included in this project Sussman has set the criteria that the organism, (with the exception of one coral all are plants)…
I am sharing my passion for plants on the Plant Enthusiast website. Including my summer “100 project” I am trying to choose my 100 favourite trees, shrubs etc. etc. Just click on the image to potter over to the Plant Enthusiast…
When the unthinkable happened and the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945, more than 100,000 people died. The city of Hiroshima was reduced to radioactive rubble and somehow, beyond all of the odds 170 trees survived the blast. Since 2011, a group have been nurturing seeds from the survivor trees and…
I have been asked to post reviews of Gardening Books, tools etc that I have found to be useful, and so over the next few weeks, (on wet days) I will be doing just that. I hope you find them useful…
This week I have been judging the gardens that have entered for the Hedon in Bloom competition. I particularly liked the ideas that have been used to create this interesting wall. Rope edging, often used to edge borders and stop gravel and other loose path materials from mixing with the border soil has been laid…
Wandering through Wisley recently I could not quite believe my eyes… Just click on the flower to be wafted to the Plant Enthusiast website, to find out just what this is…