mottisfont abbey garden
Posted: March 15, 2012 Filed under: art, gardens, observations and enquiry | Tags: mottisfont, mottisfont abbey, pruning, roses, secateurs Leave a comment »During a recent
During a recent artist residency at the extraordinary Mottisfont Abbey near Romsey in Hampshire, I made a series of digital shorts that focused on particular details of someone’s working day, or an important thing that they did at Mottisfont that perhaps others didn’t know about. Three are relevant to this blog.
The first is of Kat Weyman, one of the gardeners at Mottisfont and her ‘how to tie in a rose in cold weather’ technique, which I found pretty mesmerising. And secondly, a longer video with David Stone, head gardener at Mottisfont talking about the pruning of the roses.
pruning of the roses.
pruning of the roses.
pruning of the roses.
And finally, a snippet caught early on in the residency of some of the wonderful volunteers…
roses.
witch hazel, a cycle
Posted: January 22, 2012 Filed under: art, plants | Tags: Hamamelis, PJ Harvey Leave a comment »
I love the Hamamelis flowering – such a particular flower at such a particular time of year.
Last year, I was photographing the Hamamelis intermedia ‘Jelena’ at Kew in February, and I started this blog at Imbolc (February 2nd) last year. This year it is already past its best.
And, as part of the annual cycle, a song from PJ Harvey – The Garden
aconite, eranthis
Posted: January 22, 2012 Filed under: plants | Tags: aconite, artist residency, Eranthis, mottisfont Leave a comment »
During one of my visits to the extraordinary Mottisfont Abbey as part of an artist residency – on a break from recording every door in the house opening and closing – I found this bank of Aconite under the ancient fruit tree.
