It seems to me it’s unusual to have a surname that is a vegetable or herb. The Broccoli dynasty of Bond fame, of course, and the fictional Parsnip created by Evelyn Waugh to mock WH Auden in Put Out More Flags. So I’m pleased to add Parsley to my trug.
Category: Sculpture
A Jaunt To See Jenner
Guest blogger, Robert Bruce, went on an apposite walk on Sunday. “Yesterday, in need of exercise on a bright Spring day, I walked down to the Italian Gardens at the north side of Kensington Gardens. I made sure that I was socially distancing all the way. Though this was relatively easy. Not many people about.… Continue reading A Jaunt To See Jenner
Going West
Mo Farquharson
Taranto
Chiswick House
Saint Leodegar
Big Cheese
I’m sorry, I’ll write that again – big trees. This is a Maclura Pomifera named after William Maclure, an American geologist born in Scotland. The Pomifera means fruit-bearing. It should be named after William Dunbar, another Scotsman, who identified it in 1804 when he was travelling from the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.
The Church of Our Lady, Merevale, et al
This church is now known as St Mary’s but I have chosen to retain its original nomenclature before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Now it is a parish church but it dates from the 13th century and Pevsner thinks it was a capella ante portas of Merevale Abbey, a Cistercian house founded in 1148 by… Continue reading The Church of Our Lady, Merevale, et al