Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
The importance of keeping a visual record of the garden over time is so conspicuously apparent, I can only wonder why for so long I’ve been indifferent to its practice. Perhaps because, out of instinct, I turn first to words rather than pictures, though in the process of writing these daily posts I’ve come to understand that I have, after all, been keeping a pretty comprehensive photographic record – only one which I’d rarely revisit. And in not habitually revisiting past versions of the garden, I’ve denied myself the pleasures of seeing how certain views have changed – it’s rather easier today, for example, to tell which is grassy path and which is flowerbed in the area shown in the photograph, though couch grass, wild strawberries, wood avens, sorrel and dock are never too far away. Oh, there’s a bramble in there too – half the problem, if it is a problem, is that I rather love this weedy melange – I push it back every now and then from the path edges, in the full knowledge that it’ll roll back in again like a green tide. And this is how it should be – but the point, before I get caught up in another hymn to our native flora – is that the ability with which we can now photograph, catalogue, and recall images with ease places a powerful learning aid into the hands of the gardener. Something I’ll do well to remember in future, though I’m sure you knew it all along.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
