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A Tour Around Inley Drove Farm Garden in June and July, 2020: Part 1

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Francis Pryor

These two blog posts (this is the first part only) are written for the benefit of those visitors who would have come to our garden in a pre-booked tour, in June and July 2020. Sadly we have had to cancel … Continue reading →

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High Summer 2019: Hot and Wet

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Francis Pryor

I think last Thursday, July 25th was the hottest day I’ve ever experienced and at 38.7o Celsius (101.66o Fahrenheit) the thermometer in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden agreed with me: an all-time British record. But it was the humidity that … Continue reading →

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Our North Wales Break, Part 2: Gardens (or Size Isn’t Everything)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Francis Pryor

A good holiday should make you think. I’ve never really been very set on the idea of using your holiday to ‘escape’ – but from what? From your normal daily life? If the answer to that is yes, then I’d … Continue reading →

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Day Lilies and Embellishing Reality

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Francis Pryor

Wow! What a horribly pretentious title. At face value, it’s the sort of verbose garbage that’s best confined to the CV of an aspiring academic art historian. Having said that, it does state what this post is going to be … Continue reading →

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