The Platinum Line

Tag: gardens

  • Enjoying retirement after lockdown

    Around the world people are emerging from lockdown and having to adjust to the new normal. This enforced break has given us the chance to try a new hobby or to restart an old one. The changes brought about by social distancing measures will give us opportunities as well as challenges. Now is the time…

  • The Snuff Mills Community Garden Bristol

    The Snuff Mills Community Garden Bristol

    It is now the beginning of May, and we are still in lockdown here in England.  I am slowly coming to accept the new normal while mourning my old life. I used to take trips to the shops, the hairdresser or a coffee bar for granted. Now we are only supposed to leave the house…

  • Cardiff Review of the RHS flower show

    Cardiff Review of the RHS flower show

      This weekend we visited Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It is a short hop across the Severn bridge from Bristol and we were able to catch a bus from Bristol to Newport and change for Cardiff. We wanted to go to the RHS flower show which is held annually in Bute Park next to…

  • Cruising the Dutch Waterways and a visit to the Keukenhof bulb gardens.

    Cruising the Dutch Waterways and a visit to the Keukenhof bulb gardens.

    Three years ago we took a trip on the Dutch waterways from Arnham to Amsterdam aboard an old canal barge.

  • Madeira: visiting the garden island

    Madeira: visiting the garden island

    A Bristol  coach firm used to run a winter trip to Kew Gardens in London.  Unsurprisingly the orchid house at Kew quickly became one of my favourite places to visit when the evenings became darker.  For a short while we could forget the British winter and imagine we were walking through the tropics.  So  I…