Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
My bronze (copper with a little tin) trowel from Implementations - which I bought at an RHS Spring Show a couple of years ago. Yet to be used, though prompted by a tweet I saw, I think I should start using it - and the matching hand fork I picked up at the same time.…
Continue reading ➞ A new Bronze Age
Poppies in July Sylvia Plath Little poppies, little hell flames, Do you do no harm? You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing Burns. And it exhausts me to watch you Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth. A mouth…
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The Teddington Gardener 