Sculpture Exhibition London Inspired by the Garden

Setting up my June exhibition, we have a well deserved lunch break.

Inspired By The Garden

28 Cork Street, London. W1S 3NG

Monday 1st June 2009 to Saturday 6th June 2009

Weekdays 10.00am - 6.00pm Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm

A percentage of proceeds will go to

Young Art Scotland for Cancer Research UK and Roy Kinnear House, a charity for profoundly disabled young adults.

Tel No. 020 7437 2812 (during exhibition only)

Absence

A sorry to all my e friends for my prolonged absence due to pressure of work; then again, when the view is like this by your home who would be in front of a computer!!

Spring Flowers 2009

Invest for the future especially in Art!

Summer Flowers for Marley

Some flowers from our garden Marley, as promised. (1st one, more to come)

Dorset Sunflowers

To all lovers of Van Gough, I apologise, in part, for my opinions and in respect for you all, I add the joke I saw in a bunch of flowers my wife brought home recently; these three specimens which are now past their best! We will plant the seeds next year to see if they look better grown in sunny Dorset!

A Prince in the garden

"No, I am not here".

First time I have managed to grow basil from seed.

Wild Geranium outside.

Muddled up with the lawn mower, this little cap was also worried about the lack of butterflies this year.

Charlie and St John's Wort

Here as promised Museworthy is some St John's Wort for you. My American Appaloosa mare aged 32, was attracted by all the attention and had to come and see what I was doing on the ground!

The Rose In June in the Apple Tree

Amanda Sisk posted a fine picture of roses on her blog a few days ago, I can’t compete but neither can I wait ‘till February. The Rose in June was my Uncle’s boat and gives me an idea for a sculpture, (not a flower or a boat I must add!)

Toads do love Hot Motor Vehicles

Like so many husbands across the length and breadth if merry England, I mowed the lawn last week-end. I wonder just how many others were accompanied by a stowaway such as this splendid toad who stayed in his chosen place for much of the hour or so it took.

In case you missed him in the first picture as I did.


So attached he became to ‘his’ motor vehicle that he spent the following night under it keeping his head down and so escaping a second decapitating chez Mileham.

My wife's famous Ginger plant.

October Roses

Beauty and the Beast; summer's gone but some colour hangs on.

Good Luck

Pink for a Southern Belle - Susangelique

A flower for the south

Here it is, or was, for Susangelique.

Dedicated to all those young who will not see this again

Here is a picture of the woods here. I dedicate this picture to all the young who will not see something like this again as a result of gun crime.

Since the swallows left in October last, the little stable yard outside my studio (the old tack room) has been very quiet. Yes, a dozen or more wrens live in the far wall behind my desk and I hear a lot of pushing and shoving, bickering and squabbling at bedtime, but at last things are livening up properly.

This picture explains much, his animals have been out to grass as he has been off sick, but all is getting back to normal.

An advance party of swallows has settled in and soon the main party will arrive making the Etoile feel safe and navigating Trafalgar Square a doddal. They come in at low level at a hundred miles and hour within inches of each other (and me). If I leave my door open they will come in and look for a suitable spot to set up home! I guess that there may be as many as 30 or 40 birds in flight sometimes.

White Violets ?

Marly, I am a total guesser though, yes I believe these are English native Violets. I will need to look more deeply though to find them. These sound as if they are North American.

http://www.msuturfweeds.net/details/_/wild_violet_17/

http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/VioletW.htm

http://www.prairiefrontier.com/pages/natvpics/nativee6.html

Riot of spring

Here very quickly are some pictures of spring today. Primroses, a white violet, hawthorn (blackthorn) and for Erik a Tulip!

For Chris

Well it varies! My favourite which we bought last year was £15, ($ 28) it had a good number of flowers but was rather “leggy” and so in the “sale” at half price. This year it is doing well but still a bit “leggy”. I think when it has flowered you can prune it so it becomes more bushy like this good one which was priced at £180 ($335) this year. Needless to say it did not end up in our car. I have posted a "detail" picture too for good measure!

PS We do not have shares (stock) in this company by the way!!!

Camellias

Camellia Sunday, here are the first 8 of the 16 or so I photographed at the annual sale. You may love or hate looking at plants, on the whole I get bored quickly except for Azaleas and Camellias when in abundance.

I recommend Exbury Gardens for Azaleas.

If it is Camellias you like then you will find Trehane nursery a paradise. There are 30,000 named varieties of Camellias, 132 are in their catalogue with origins around the world from the USA, New Zealand, Japan, England to name just a few.

I will save my favourite for another time, they are called Jury's lemon and Midnight.

http://www.trehanenursery.co.uk/

Something a little less somber

My favoirite Camellia