About Writer Rupert Mayhew recently moved to Tuscany, Italy, from a career in IT in London. He works in and runs an expanding agriturismo and this new role includes the task of creating a garden out of what is now mountainside. http://www.ladocciawelcomes.com. rmayhew@pemba-adventures.com
The Diary Of An English Gardener In Tuscany Jan 25th 2004 - Looking at the bleak colourless winter gardens here, and the memory of the garden in the summer, it is clear this garden needs work, but none more so than planting trees, and not any trees of course. La Doccia is surrounded by forests; oak, chestnut, ash and beech abound. The woods are famous and even Milton wrote of the woods in this valley in Paradise Lost. The trees in mind are...... Similar Editorial : A Golfers Diary by Will Hook. | Source : Italy Holiday
The Journal Of An English Gardener In Tuscany The Mystery of the Birds DroppingMarch 6th 2004 - Despite our best endeavours we are not doing well encouraging birdlife. Last week we put up a bird feeder but I am sad to say that not one bird has been seen partaking of this bounteous feast, it is almost tempting to put up a webcam just in case, but the fact is the level of nuts in the feeder has not gone down at all. More worrying is the strange...... Similar Editorial : Bars in Tuscany by kmhflowers. | Source : Italy Holiday
Journal Of A Gardener - Tuscany Gardener The Iris SeasonMarch 13th 2004 – It seems that every wall, every verge and every garden in Tuscany grows Iris bulbs and they are now growing frantically, long green blades like tropical grass, ready to spring a colour on us, are everywhere. I hardly noticed these lovely flowers until I first went to Italy, but here they are everywhere and the road to Florence is lined with walls, pots and...... Similar Editorial : Food Journal Recognizes Batchmaster by Thomas Cutler. | Source : Italy Holiday
Gardener In Tuscany Blossoms and the Busy SeasonMarch 27th 2004 –This is the start of the busy season in the garden centres as they are all stocking plants which means gardeners everywhere are breaking from their winter lethargy and starting to tend their gardens. We have been busy too, planting irises to replace those so selfishly eaten by a porcupine, as well as planting gladioli and some deep late summer lily...... Similar Editorial : Poppies in Tuscany 2 by kmhflowers. | Source : Italy Holiday
The Journal Of A Gardener In Tuscany - Early April 2004 The Journal of a Gardener in Tuscany – April 2004 part IEarlyMarch Winds and April ShowersApril 10th 2004 I replanted two flowering trees at the request of my Father, he cannot remember their names but one has yellow flowers and the other is a ‘pink thing’. The ‘pink thing’ did not enjoy being placed in the shade last year under Lombardo’s loggia, or shaded terrace, so we have planted it with the ...... Similar Editorial : Bars in Tuscany by kmhflowers. | Source : Italy Holiday
Gardening In Tuscany Lavender & Tourists AppearApril 24th 2004This week we have made the garden ready for the busy tourist season, with just a few minor jobs, such as the new Lemon tree, left to go. La Doccia is full now for the first time this year. While every day this week I came back from my language course in Florence, arrived at La Doccia and found my Father pottering around with another car load of new plants...... Similar Editorial : Bars in Tuscany by kmhflowers. | Source : Italy Holiday
The Journal Of A Gardener In Tuscany - September 2004 Sept 14 2004 – As the good weather continued through early September the lawn grew steadily browner and browner. Yet the nights are already shorter and just when it seemed the last of the lawn would die the heavens opened and rained, and this time it rained for more than just an hour. It was a classic end of summer, season changing afternoon. As ever it was sunny all morning, then cloudy, and just...... Similar Editorial : Bars in Tuscany by kmhflowers. | Source : Italy Holiday
The Journal Of A Gardener In Tuscany - October 2004 October 14 2004 – We set up the greenhouses for the summer shrubs, sadly removing still flowering geraniums, the gardenia, several hostas and the bougainvillea into a greenhouse and leaving many empty spaces around the garden, places that provided so much colour during the summer. All the above flowers had excellent summers and luckily most will survive the winter in the greenhouse, last year we...... Similar Editorial : Bars in Tuscany by kmhflowers. | Source : Italy Holiday
