Category - Garden and Outdoors

Including  plants, landscapes and seasonal observations

I am not a particularly good gardener. But I do like to share my interest in gardening here on Endymion from time to time. It's because gardening is really one of the greatest of creative pursuits, and more people really should be doing it. Combining exercise, fresh air and a love of design, there is hardly any problem or difficulty in life that cannot be improved upon by a spell outside working with plants and landscape. 

Walking in the countryside has similar benefits. Cares are forgotten, worries vanish. It's great for writers, too. And whether it's just a humble window box or the management of a huge estate, the spaces where we grow plants are invariably those of magic and inspiration - souces of nourishment for body, mind and spirit.

• A Question of Good & Evil

• Spring Flowering Combination

• Bark - it grows on trees you know

• Exotic Companions - the remarkable diversity of our parks & gardens

•  Flowers at the Gate - a Brief History of giving quietly

• Mushrooms - Earthstars, Stinkhorns and other little miracles

• Winter leaves - garden colour and amazement still.

• A Walk in the Bluebell Woods.

• 2016 in Review.

• Scarlet Poppy Fair - a flower with a history.

• Sir Robin’s Election Manifesto, 2015.

• Snowdrops and Periwinkle.

• GOTH ROBIN - a Special Guest Post for Halloween.

• The Garden in November - a place of colour and surprise.

• 60’s Noir - a special Halloween Guest Post from Sir Robin.

• Working Space.

• What do you see? Perception and memory.

• Various Observations on a Jolly Good Week.

• Out in the Garden.

• Flowers. What are they for?

• Sir Robin - latest! And a birdbox named Kenilworth.

• Happy Summer Solstice! And a little bit of Shakespeare.

• A Special Valentine Idea - introducing the Tussie Mussie.

• Those Dull Victorians? Well, no, not really.

• The Feast of Michaelmas.