This Blog rises, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of a number of similar blogs originally hosted by AOL, who have now withdrawn such services.

After years of offering my thoughts and many photographs as a UK garden designer it seems somehow appropiate that, having moved to the wilds of central France, the Blog should also find a new home.

I trust my reader and I will continue to enjoy all that gardening has to offer, with a new French twist and more than a little support from le bon vin de Touraine.