Sofias Country Gardens

There are some projects that take so long to complete and are so uninspiring during the work phase that I tend to just skip them over and show the end result, a few years down the line. Yet there is a lot to be said for documenting the process in a garden like mine, where nature is so strong that creating anything new in an area of wilderness is a challenge. The parking lot by Stensund, the red house, lies tucked away to the side of the house, hidden for many years underneath

The most beautiful first line of any book I've ever read was Karen Blixen's Out of Africa which begins "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills" . In all its simplicity, it tells you all you need to know in the wistfulness of the past tense she uses. More hopeful and happy is the most frequently quoted sentence from the first chapter that goes "Up in this high air you breathed easily… you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be" . The

A year ago I had an operation to help with my back problems which meant that the whole of last years gardening season went to waste. It...

This New Year 2025 I woke up in New York, as you do when life continues to throw random curved balls at you and so much of what you do is...