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I recently had a most peculiar experience.

To do with conversations about gardens, Chatgpt and the famous garden at Rousham. This post is a result and is not really about Rousham, for those to whom that is a distant, unattainable garden. It’s basically about the dreaded AI.

I need to explain...


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The first holes I dug were a bold six-year-old boy’s solo attempt to reach China. I felt certain that I could find kids on the other side of the world who would wander along with me in fields and forests. Life seemed so simple in in 1957. My plan was to poke though by noon and be home by dinner. I left the back yard poc...


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Original landscaping shown in this 1938 photo.

Since moving to Historic Greenbelt, Maryland, where evergreen hedges are ubiquitous – and usually in the way – I’ve become almost obsessed with how awful they are and begun co...


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Am I the only one on the planet who was truly gobsmacked this week when Monty Don admitted to TWO full-time gardeners beetling away behind the scenes at his beautifully maintained two-acre garden in Herefordshire?

The crazy comment pile-on on an Instagram reel this past Sunday by @thisgardenwanderer (who filmed Mr. Sexy Knickers at RHS Malvern discussing his re...


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I don’t want to rant this week or talk about some big issue. I think the world is rather too full of big issues at the moment, and that in trying to keep up with it all we end up losing a bit of ourselves.

I have no issue with the idea of being informed but there’s the square root of nothing I can do about things. I can’t stop wars or tell people to stop lashing...


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