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place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design

Mairi’s labyrinth

By: Kate Davies Designs June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

gardening, gardens, landscapeflowers, gardening, gardens, landscape, landscaping, planting, plants30 Comments

an act of resourcefulness, determination and creativity

Marianne North

By: Michelle June 23, 2020June 23, 2020

art, books, History, painting, textilesbig pic, botanical illustration, flora, Kew, Marianne North, Michelle Payne, plants, travel27 Comments

Hello, it’s Michelle here, with a post about Marianne North (1830–1890), a Victorian traveller and nature artist who left an extraordinary legacy. Painting 684. North painted the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) from a garden specimen in Java. For almost 140 years North’s paintings have been on permanent display in the gallery she established at the…

green. and white. and pink. and blue

By: Kate Davies Designs April 26, 2009June 1, 2010

gardens, walkingallotment, Edinburgh, flowers, photography, plants, spring, walking20 Comments

If you are wondering why I’ve not mentioned our allotment, this is because I was hoping that ‘the situation’ that has unfolded around the allotment would have resolved itself by now. This is ‘the situation’: basically the allotment man at the council managed to double book our plot, and it was assigned to someone else.…