On one hot August day W. H. Hudson stood here on the top of Kingston Hill in a special moment of elation feeling the peace of these timeless South Down hills.
Continue reading “The Peace of the Downs”The Peace of the Downs
Category: Most Popular Posts
The RHS’s Showpiece Wisley Garden
The Royal Horticultural Society’s Wisley Garden offers everything for a garden lover’s ideal day out, full of take-away ideas for our own gardens. Gertrude Jekyll would have loved this place.
Continue reading “The RHS’s Showpiece Wisley Garden”The Dawn Chorus at Knepp
Re-wilding at Knepp has brought back the sounds of old England. The magic of a dawn chorus with echoes of Eden remind us of yesteryear.
Continue reading “The Dawn Chorus at Knepp”Samuel Palmer’s ‘Valley of Vision’
The ford across the Darent river at Eynsford, Kent in winter flood. This is the painter, Samuel Palmer’s ‘Valley of Vision’ with its own historic Roman villa and two castles.
Continue reading “Samuel Palmer’s ‘Valley of Vision’”
A Listening Heart 