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May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

A Beach Shrubscape

Just down the road from me is my favourite beach, at Pagham, West Sussex. Famous for its harbour and wildfowl, it is the adjacent area of vegetated shingle that captivates me. The area has that slightly run-down British coastal seaside feel, the location not quite right for it to be a major tourist attraction, thankfully.

May 14, 2020March 15, 2021

The self-seeded garden

By Mark Laurence 3 Comments

About 60% of my garden planting consists of self-seeded plants, which might seem surprising. I’m particularly focusing here on my dry garden but the same applies elsewhere. So how do you keep an acceptable aesthetic when plants put themselves here or there, without consultation? I find that a different attitude to that of the “traditional”