In early spring, I somehow managed to fill the zoom lens of my Panasonic Lumix with soil , which sadly made my camera unusable. All the images for this years blogs, have been taken using my old iPhone.
Using my iPhone enables me to take an image on the spur of the moment. It is always important to remember that my customers pay me to manage their gardens, and not to spend time being an amateur photographer.
I very much hope you enjoy these images. I have thoroughly enjoyed taking them and writing about my gardening life in 2023.
A festival of Christmas lights, favourite flower vases and ornamental grasses at homeWe always loose the propagation pencils at Wildegoose nursery – so I made a pyrography stenciled box for them Snow at home in November 2023Haw frost in our orchardMartin and Judy’s new garden.I focussed my writing on this new build garden in 2023.Scottish thistles self seeding at home. I never forget to grow the magnificent annual Tithonia rotundifolia The TorchDahlia Merkensis from seed in March, and flowering by July No dig orchard renovation at homeSelf seeded feverfew at Martin and Judy’s and Allium sphaerocephalon. Chrysanthemums are my new thing .Late summer at home.I often cut big collections of flowers for the cafe at wildegoosenursery.First go at Wedding flowers – the theme was bohemia, and the location – Ludlow Castle.A pen and ink of our garden by my husband John. Infact it was a stick rather than a pen. I am planning on making this into a lino cut over my Christmas break.My work desk at Wildegoose nursery.Busy propagating at Wildegoose A visit to the magnificent Great Dixter Gardens in Rye in early autumn. Start of a foliage lino cutA spring door garland for one of my friends .We only use freshly cut material from the gardens when making swags and door wreaths at Wildegoose nursery .Frost on the fruit tree at home
It really has been a great year for gardening and garden images , and of course there is one favourite. As soon as I took the image of the haw frost at home, I new instantaneously it was my most memorable.
To finish on a happy camera note, thanks to YouTube, we recently worked out how to mend the Lumix !
Sally Wicks 