There is nothing else like a Chinese garden – Entering into a Chinese Garden is to pass through a Moon Gate and enter into another world. A place of discovery, philosophy and poetry. Wander it’s intricate pathways, patterned with pebbles. Step into a small pavilion whose purpose is ‘Listening to rain on the leaves’ or…
“ If he has an inexhaustible feeling for the country in general. his love of the myriad English flowers is perhaps the fondest part of it” Alfred Parsons 1847 – 1920 Self Portrait That was how Henry James perceptively described Alfred Parsons. And every aspect of Parsons life and work was focussed on his…
This journey was inspired by Laurie Lee’s book, ’When I Walked out One Midsummer Morning’. The descriptions of the towns and landscape he travelled through as he walked across Spain were so evocative that I had to visit them for myself. Being of the twenty-first century, I elected to fly to Madrid and go from…
Quite outside the turmoil of the 21st Century, is a place still redolent of the Beau Monde. Grace, charm, beauty, paintings, books and above all, continuity. A garden made over the last 100 years by three generations of the same family. Loved, created, changed, enjoyed, lived in and added to. How differently it resonates. How…
