‘A Purple Patch’

- a period of success or good fortune

by Virginia Oakes

What better way can there be to spend a bleak mid-winter afternoon than mulling over last years gardening successes – and failures – and looking forward in anticipation to what might be achieved in the coming year? It was on just such an occasion that I came across these shots and remembered how much pleasure these two plants had given and what a lot of comment they had attracted from everyone who visited us – but for somewhat different reasons. Read more