I was determined to post about June before the first week of July was over. My intentions were good, but somehow… So here’s two months for the price of one.
Category: Garden
General category for posts about the garden at Woodridge
Last month I posted about our magnificent magnolias. I thought I’d follow up with another single issue post, featuring our stunning rhododendrons and azaleas.
I love May. It’s so fresh, alive and green … except where it’s flowering madly in every other colour. Hedgerows, verges, gardens, woods – it’s all going on, everywhere.
As I said in April part 1, it’s been a busy month. But it’s also been a chance to sit and take in my surroundings. Read a book and listen…
Along the river, over the hills, in the ground, in the sky, spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm, new life, new beauty, unfolding, unrolling in glorious exuberant extravagance,…
I’ve never been all that taken with magnolias. They have these huge showy flowers which look wonderful for 5 minutes, then get brown and bruised and drop before you know it.
Well this year I’ve completely changed my opinion.
It feels like things are really getting going. I can’t wait to spend much more time and attention on the garden.
I usually try to be somewhere else in February. It’s cold, it’s dark, winter will never end. Far better to be somewhere exotic. But this February …
New Year’s Day can feel pretty gloomy but our first one at Woodridge started strongly. We’re on a hillside, facing west, so the sun has usually done its fancy sunrise…
When we first viewed Woodridge we were overwhelmed by the garden. It was mid-summer and everything was ebullient, effusive, extraordinary. And just way too much to take in. How the…