In the Distance – m.joy

Helen Dillon’s Garden – National Treasure

Monty Don chatting to writer and gardener Helen Dillon in her beautiful abundent Irish walled town garden just before it was sold, commented that.. “Gardening was what grown ups do outside to play” in reponse to her comment that gardening was the only place she felt at peace. Another funny exchange about an orange rose […]

Kew in the Country

Visited this Garden this weekend and it was being set for a Wedding. Took my parents and my dad told us about Sir Henry Price the ’50 Shilling Taylor’ who was the last person to own Wakehurst before it was donated to the National Trust and then leased by Kew to be its Garden in […]