Tulips, autumn, mess and tangle
This week I went to see Karen at Artists Garden and drove the high and lovely road West across Wales to the sea. I love this road. I have driven it in sun and in rain and in winter , summer and autumn and whenever I drive it the high emptiness of the Denbigh moors followed by the slow and beautiful descent to the sea makes my heart sing. Karen had also arranged for me to meet Kate at Beangenie guessing rightly that we would have a lot in common so it was day for wandering around their gardens, sitting outside a lot, drinking lots of tea and relishing good company. Karen's garden is very different from my own both in size and in the style of planting. Her garden is a late summer and autumn garden and sure enough there was still colour from a whole bed of salvias shimmering in the still sunlight. And there was movement too, even on a windless day, from the grasses firing upwards like fireworks or fountaining gently in flowing curves down by the studio....