Anne Guy
Anne Guy
I am a garden designer living and working in rural Worcestershire For more information and to see examples of my work see www.anneguygardendesigns.co.uk
Categories
Blogs I Follow
- Lavender Moon: Artist, Poet and Lover of Nature
- Planting Diaries
- Too Lazy To Weed
- A Mudlark's Diary
- The Postal Adventures of Morris Mouse
- Cornwall in Colours
- Nick Andrew. drawing projects
- The World according to Dina
- OLD FATHER THAMES | Thames Mudlark Diary
- Ros the traveling cat
- Hedgespoken - the blog
- The Cornish Bird
- long man's walking guide to Sussex
- LOOK UP LONDON
- Sing Better English
- Nicola Oakey Design
- My Site
- Girl, Always Interrupted
- Enthusiastic Gardener
- Walks in Suffolk
Tags
- Adnams brewery
- Alice in Wonderland
- AWRE
- Back to Backs
- Bankside
- Bellarmine Jars
- Birmingham
- Bobs World Cat Cafe James Bowen
- Carreras Factory Camden
- Cat Cafe London
- Cat Meat Seller
- Dahlias
- Dan Cruickshank
- Dick Whittington
- Exotic gardening
- Ferry Road Southwold
- Foreshore finds
- George Saunders Tailor
- Hawksmoor Churches
- Hodge
- Huguenots
- James Bowen
- Jewellery
- Jewellery Quarter
- Kaspar The Savoy Cat
- Little Venice
- London
- London's East End
- London Cats
- Michael Bond
- Millennium Bridge
- Mosaics
- Mudlarking
- Mudlarks
- Museum of London
- National Collection of Dahlias
- National Trust
- Orford Ness
- Paddington
- Paddington Trail
- Paul Bommer
- Penzance
- Port of London
- Public Sculpture
- Queenhithe
- RHS Wisley
- Save Norton Folgate
- Sculpture in the City Trail
- Shell Ford
- Social History
- South Bank Mosaics
- Southwold
- Southwold History
- Southwold Pier
- Spitalfields Gardens Huguenots
- Spitalfields Life
- Spitalfields Silks
- Spitalfields Trust
- St Barts Church
- Street Cat Bob
- Thames
- The Gentle Author
- The Gherkin
- Tobacco Dock
- Tower Hamlets
- Town House
- Town House Fournier Street
- Town of Ramsgate
- Tropical Plants
- Wapping
- Wildlife
- Will Giles Exotic Garden
- Wilton's Music Hall
- Worcester floods
- Worthing
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Recent Posts
- Cley Skies or Cley Days… January 29, 2020
- The Garden at 120 March 17, 2019
- Life on The Edge January 6, 2019
- Theatre of Small Convenience December 23, 2018
- A Squawk In The Park March 23, 2018
Archives
- January 2020
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- May 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- September 2015
- July 2015
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- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- February 2014
- January 2014
- June 2013
- April 2013
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- February 2013
- January 2013
Author Archives: Anne Guy
The Garden at 120
I am always keen to visit newly created gardens, so whilst in London for a few days last month, I read of a new garden in the City which had only opened the week before and just had to pay … Continue reading
Life on The Edge
Just a few miles south of the West Midlands conurbation, tucked below an escarpment topped with an Iron Age hill fort, lie some very curious former dwellings…the Rock Houses of Kinver. I have known of these rock houses for years … Continue reading
Theatre of Small Convenience
A couple of months ago whilst walking through the picturesque Worcestershire town of Great Malvern, I spotted a door of an old building with an unusual sign…”The Theatre of Small Convenience”! Reading the notice below, this tiny building, transformed from … Continue reading
Posted in Curiosites, Great Malvern, Theatres, Uncategorized
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A Squawk In The Park
If you have ever visited any of London’s parks or gardens, then the chances are you may have heard a very un-British bird call. If you have been lucky you may even have caught a fleeting glimpse of some bright … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Kensington Gardens, London, London Gardens, Parakeets, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Wildlife
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In Search of the Fifth Continent and a Desert
With my explorations of Rye and Winchelsea over (see my previous article Rye Rambles) I headed off into Kent towards Dungeness via Romney Marsh. Romney Marsh is sometimes known as “The Fifth Continent”… due to its natural beauty the diversity of … Continue reading
Rye Rambles
Whilst I have spent a lot of time visiting places in East Sussex, I had never been to the eastern part of the county specifically to Winchelsea and Rye, so last July, booked a few days away to explore them. … Continue reading
Gormley Men
Last weekend a farewell party was held in the small Warwickshire village of Lowsonford to say goodbye to one of its famous residents. Whilst only in residence for a year he had received many visits from art lovers and … Continue reading
Posted in Antony Gormley, Art, Uncategorized
Tagged Aldeburgh, Crosby Beach, Gormley Men, Hayward Gallery, Landmark Trust, London, Lowsonford, Sculpture, Sculpture Antony Gormley
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A Sad Day for Norton Folgate
Two weeks ago the Spitalfields Trust campaign to halt British Land’s destruction of Norton Folgate went to a judicial review in the High Court. Today I learnt of the Judge’s verdict… Justice Gilbart found in favour of Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of … Continue reading
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In Search of Shingle Street
A couple of years ago whilst in a bookshop in Aldeburgh, I saw a black and white postcard of a row of coastguard cottages called simply “Shingle Street”. It looked a desolate and mysterious place and one I simply had to … Continue reading
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