New Gardeners’ World ‘Head Gardener’ announced!

The long awaited news of the next national Head Gardener has recently been announced – he will be 38 year old nurseryman and landscape gardener Toby Buckland, dubbed an ‘ethical gardener’ and ‘hugely likable and enthusiastic’ – Monty’s wellies are a big thing to step into, so I wish him well.
Toby won a gold for [...]

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The scariest path in the world

Not being given to vertiginous pursuits, this posting is outside my normal range of interests – I prefer to view mountainous scenery from a position of safety and with the minimum of physical effort. But this video is so stomach churningly incredible, I just had to post it.
It shows the Caminito del Rey (the little [...]

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Art & Medicine

What I love about art is the way it stretches thought beyond the obvious. I am well aware of my Jungian preference for Intuition in the way I deal with information – and modern art is an ideal medium to spark off the completely random tangential thinking which so appeals to my psychological nuances.
I have [...]

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Bell Tent Report 2

My new bell tent has just been out for the third outing, and considering the vast range of weathers it had to cope with, I thought it was time for another report!
Bell tenting has really captured the imagination of the Druid camping community and there is now a large array of them, and very beautiful [...]

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