Category Archives: Pure Joy

Hestercombe 18th C Landscape Garden

Blog friends, have I taken you to Hestercombe before?

Hestercombe is a very special place in that there are three different gardens here : the 18th Century Landscape Garden with all the water dashing through it and small temples and follies, the Edwardian Garden designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll and the Formal Victorian Terrace and Shrubberies. The Landscape Garden has been the subject of a major restoration project, and was opened to the public for the first time in 125 years in 1997. Continue reading →

Bless the Plants that Grow through The Cracks

Years ago, I used to play the guitar, not very well I may add, and in those pre internet days, one went to a music shop and bought music to play in books. I had a book from something called the Newport Folk Festival and it was full of unfamiliar songs from over the Atlantic, a mix of folk and protest songs that were new to me. Continue reading →