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14/8/2016

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There is a huge selection of rucksacks on this new-to-me site called Zalando - easy to use, free delivery and returns....I have ordered a small size not dissimilar to this one which I posted about recently.

With reference to yesterday's post, this post epitomizes the 'style' or character I am now working towards in the garden. Simple (if not simple to actually do!).

Katherine asked which garden design books I would recommend. John Brookes Garden Design Book is a favourite. Based on sound principles, he really spells it out. Excellent.

Anything by Beth Chatto is worth devouring. She is an artist with plants, and her word descriptions are poetic. While wonderfully knowledgeable she does not spell out her design princlples in the way that Brookes does - you have to analyse her photographs to figure out what it is that she is doing that makes her work so good. In The Dry Garden is a little diagram of overlapping asymmetrical triangles which represent a system which she has developed and which earned her a string of Gold Medals at Chelsea...

Architectural Foliage by Jill Billington has very good illustrations of design elements.

Rejuvenating a Garden by Stephen Anderton is invaluable if the garden you are working on is not a blank slate. Completely trustworthy advice.

For inspirational design ideas you can't beat Andrea Jones The Garden Source (especially as it has ten photos of our garden in it! Thrilling!)


On a final style note I had my hair cut today. Yay!

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9 Comments
Sarah link
15/8/2016 02:20:29 am

That rucksack does look very stylish! Thank you for the book recommendations some of them am unfamiliar with so will have to check them up particularly the one showing your garden. Sarah x

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Freda
15/8/2016 11:41:20 am

I do love my gardening books. I hope you enjoy these ones Sarah.

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Mary
15/8/2016 10:13:20 am

Another great rucksack. Too bad the site doesn't sell in the US.

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Freda
15/8/2016 11:42:12 am

Oh that is a shame! But perhaps you can Google in the brand names?

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cath
15/8/2016 10:28:05 am

Afterthought about something you said yesterday. Did you ever try keeping a small notebook and pencil on your bedside table for moments that too many ideas are whirling in your mind preventing you to sleep?
I have one for those moments the same train of thought visits me over and over again. It works. As does visualising placing my thoughts on a shelf in a closet and close the door promising myself I will revisit them tomorrow.

We have a Zalando webshop here too but I've never visited it, only know because of the commercials around the evening news. I like the rucksacks probably now I will take a look.

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Freda
15/8/2016 11:45:49 am

Yes to the pen and paper beside the bed, but I've not tried that visualisation - that could be useful. I chanced on Zalando on a friend's Facebook page - will keep you posted!

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Lotta link
15/8/2016 10:47:26 am

I like the sound of 'Rejuvenating a Garden'. I've decided recently to approach mine differently to take away the guilt and pressure of trying to rescue it, so I'm pretending I've just moved in and I've got all the time in the world to make something new of it...
Yay for stylish (and simple) gardens, rucksacks and haircuts!

PS Will keep you updated re Christmas things - I've had an idea! (I also have a notebook by the bed like Cath for the midnight idea parade...)

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Freda
15/8/2016 11:49:59 am

I think I trust this book because Stephen Anderton has in his long experience tried all the things he suggests. He also takes quite a laid back approach Very useful in your new guilt free attitude. I just knew you'd be a notebook-by-the-bed type too!

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Lucille link
16/8/2016 05:10:43 am

Thank you I have bookmarked that site as I am in need of a proper waterproof after being sorely disappointed by a Toast Parka which was anything but. The rucksacks look good too.

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