Spot the mame
This stand might normally be used to display mame trees but if you haven’t got any/many then accent plants make a suitable alternative
Category: Musings
A FOREST IN MY HAND
In a seed shop, as the dry seeds trickle through my fingers, it requires the imagination of a poet to see that ‘in my hand a forest lies asleep’. But in my hand, or maybe requiring both hands, I can hold a shallow pot containing a miniature forest tree, or even a grove of forest […]
“The trees . . . . are full of sap”
Spring is a time of re-awakening, of the beginnings of new things, of hope, of fresh promises. The sleep of winter comes to an end. This is the time when the Bonsai grower re-awakens. The sap begins to stir in his little trees. And in his mind he begins to see visions and dream dreams.The […]
FORSYTH – AND THE MEMORY GAME.
21st March 1977 As I walk around my garden I am not always thinking as a gardener. My mind does not always analyse the gardening situation, the need for pruning, the arrival of the time for applying a good mulch, the first signs of the black fly invasion. And I certainly don’t see my […]
WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE.
5 October 1979. WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE. I live in an area that was once part of the Forest of Arden. The road next to ours is called (and not without reason) Broad Oaks Road, and one of the landmarks I look for on my way home on a dark winter’s night is a very […]
The Small and the Mighty.
17 January 1977. ‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ – and there is no if about it, Winter has come. As I write, in mid-January, there is chaos by road and rail, power-supplies are damaged, disorganisation is widespread. The agent of this disruption is a tiny fragile snowflake, six-sided and crystalline in […]
Judith Davison muses on a very enjoyable trip to Japan
It was on Thursday, 4th February that four of us, David, Denise, Michael and I, set out from Birmingham airport en route for Japan. We travelled via Dubai to Tokyo where we were met by David’s friend, Katsuko. She was able to spend some time with us and it was incredibly helpful to have someone […]