Feeling at home

Where do I most feel at home in Paris? That was the question put to me by photographer Chloe Lodge, as part of her portrait series on foreign women making new lives for themselves in the French capital. It didn’t take me long to suggest parc Monceau, the splendid 8-hectare public park that’s just a [...]

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The essence of gardens

Sometimes the most poignant qualities of a site come not from what is actually there, but from what is connected to it, through time and space, by our recollections and hopes. The Poetics of Gardens It is all too easy to think of gardens as consisting simply of physical stuff — of plants and paths, [...]

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Macro in a mason jar

Gardening Gone Wild is running one of its monthly photography competitions. The rules are here – but basically, as the name suggests, the competition encourages people to take close-up garden-related images using a glass mason jar, and thus to experiment with composition, background and light. Not having a garden or a mason jar, or indeed [...]

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