V is for… Vegetable Pie
Summer time and the garden and my friends’ allotments and patches spill over with vegetables; there is a constant exchange of green beans, lettuces and handfuls of fresh spinach, little potatoes and all sorts.

V is for… Vegetable Pie
Summer time and the garden and my friends’ allotments and patches spill over with vegetables; there is a constant exchange of green beans, lettuces and handfuls of fresh spinach, little potatoes and all sorts.

U is for… Urns

When we visited the Rose Garden at Ashton Court recently we noticed that the border walls to the adjacent Italianate Garden at the back of the Mansion had been restored with these elaborate urns and sculpted heads and stopped to take some photos. If you were reading my blog last year you might remember the ha-ha and the cows, this is all in the same place. Continue reading
R is for… Rambling around in a Rose garden
It may be August, it may be cloudy and cool, but the roses are in bloom filling the air with their delicious scent, lemon and pink and warm and spicy. I’ve shown you pics from this rose garden at Ashton Court before but these are today’s photos, and even stained with rain the roses are still something special. Click on the photos to see them full size.