Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A few years ago, this scene, in front of the extraordinary Château and gardens at Villandry, in the Loire Valley. Where the rest of the photographs are, well I'll have to do some searching as they are not on this computer - was it long ago enough that there were actual negatives and prints? http://www.chateauvillandry.fr http://thegallopinggardener.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/villandry-is-this-worlds-most-perfect.html…
Continue reading ➞ Memories of the extraordinary Chateau de Villandry
Not long till Christmas!
Claudio Bincoletto, chef, horticulturist and raconteur.. What Claudio brought with him from his own foraging trip... Omelette with hop shoots, garden nettle, calendula petals, campion.. and delicious! Satisfied customers...! We took a turn around the House Gardens to see what was edible there.. Rose petals for so many applications - candied, syrups, jams, ices, for…
Brassica oleracea 'Romansco' A trip to the supermarket and back with a little piece of fractal mathematics - spirals within spirals within logarithmic spirals - in fact, this is probably the first time since school that I've made any mention of logarithms... The chartreuse green of this little, rather pricey, vegetable hasn't truly come through…
Continue reading ➞ Chaos theory, logarithms and cauliflowers
The Teddington Gardener 