‘LAY DOWN ALL HOPE, YOU THAT GO IN BY ME’ is surely one of the most hysterically hyperbolic pieces of graffiti in the mythical world. Dante passed the Gates of Hell and came out fine, I’m sure the writing’s just there to stop journalists and family historians mucking around with the dead. I’m sure because [...]
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LAY DOWN ALL HOPE, YOU THAT GO IN BY ME
Posted in gardening, Poetry, tagged Dante, gardening, Hell, Rain, Tuesdays on June 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Treachery Made a Monkey out of Me
Posted in Garden History, Poetry, tagged Darwin, gardening, Poems on May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Treasonous murmurs ripple on Ben’s Garden’s ethereal eardrums. Traitors and yellowish turncoats have been snivelling. They’ve been snivelling that…. there.is.actually.no.gardening in this gardening blog. Philistines! You most un-refined of un-refined crudity! I was building up to it! Have you never heard of foreplay? I was literally just getting to the earthy, dirty-fingered, horticultural tips posts, [...]
Gardening to Paradise
Posted in My Garden, Poetry on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A discerning member of my New York readership has sent me a roundabout request for more poetry (so moved was he by my version of daffodil’s that he has asked me to be best man at his yet to be announced, scheduled, planned or proposed wedding*). Unfortunately my creative pores have ceased to weep, so [...]
Mail order plants
Posted in Poetry, Threats, tagged Bulbs, gardening on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Britain is in the postmans death-grip, the royal mail is on strike! business has ground to a halt and lives shall surely be lost. I personally am waiting for a bag of Narcissus ‘Golden Harvest’ ordered weeks ago. No doubt they are busily sprouting in some dark and humid sorting office, warmed by the slow composting [...]
