Category: Nature

Japanese Gardens

The Kyoto Garden in Holland Park was opened in 1991 to commemorate friendly relations between the UK and Japan that have burgeoned after the Second World War. It is one of about eight Japanese gardens in the UK today.

Black Locust

Chiswick House is set in 65 acres of gardens created by Wiliam Kent in the first half of the 18th century.

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Tree of Hell

Sometimes I pen a letter to a newspaper, usually The Times or The Financial Times.

Forty Winks

One afternoon when the chairman of the Friends of Margravine Cemetery delivered a plan of the trees in the cemetery, as I had requested, I was very obviously asleep on the sofa in the front window.

Autumn in Madrid

In Valencia in 2016 I saw Joaquín Sorolla‘s pictures for the first time. In March this year I saw more of his work at The Royal Academy in London.

Travels with My Otter

A reader, John Tuffin, recommended Douglas Botting’s biography of Gavin Maxwell when there was an ottery post in August.

What Hoe!

I wonder if I should have bought a property in Chelsea when I started working in London? With a mortgage I expect I could but I am glad I didn’t.