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Behind the Privet Hedge

Michael Gilson

Gardens, landscape, history, culture, bit of journalism

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For the Winter Gardens a new Spring may come but my seaside retains its thrills amid the ruins

Marvel: The Winter Gardens taken in the 1970s. John Hinde Postcards

Turner was intoxicated with the big sky and unreal light here, first visiting at 11 years-old and being drawn back time and time again.

The place inspired his expressioni...

11 days ago
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This land is not ours but theirs: long walls and big fences show right to roam has a long way to travel

Trespassers dance around an ancient oak in Our Land

The Great Wall of Dorset stretches for miles along the A31 holiday route west.

Now and then grand arches, a carved stone stag or imperious lion astride, give glimpses into the 13,000 acr...

18 days ago
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A corner of the garden becomes a place to remember the hop fields of childhood

Kent hop pickers in the 19th Century

To me they’re as beautiful as the rose, the peony or agapanthus. Entranced, I gaze at them swaying in the breeze.

Watching the bines emerge from the soil in Spring, using their hooked hairs to quickly...

25 days ago
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A fed-up heron, dust whirlwinds and the desolation of a new country park

More than four years on…

Can a heron look, well, fed up? This one did.

The long-legged young wader was up to its ankles (?) in a fetid, fast evaporating pool.

Behind the Privet Hedge is a reader-supported publication. To receive new post...

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Walled into her cell, an anchoress looks to the sky to give life to a garden and for her own salvation

A small painting in the church of the anchoress of St Anne’s

What would she have grown in this small high-walled garden with no way out?

The space would have been no more than a few square feet in size; one step and she was across to the...

a month ago
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