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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 4, 2021

meadow flooers

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: cornflower, cosmos, flowers, garden, Hole Ousia, meadow, meadow flooers, Mossgrove, orchard, poppies

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 28, 2021

Summer flooer

Summer poppies are beginning to flooer in oor meadow.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2021, Bridge of Allan, gardens, gentle gardener, meadow, Mossgrove, orchard, Peter Gordon, poppies, rebel antiquary, scholarly gardener remembered, Scotland, Social maverick, summer, Summer flooer, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, time passes listen

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 21, 2021

The sky belongs to us all

Mossgrove garden, May 2021.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: a gardener is always a futurist, a gardener's hand, Ageing stone, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Belle and Sebastian, Bridge of Allan, C Duncan, Domino, Drambuie, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, ducks, Edwin Morgan, Everything is growing in our garden, frogs, garden, Garden song, gardener, gentle gardener, Gordon family, Heidi, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, It is by living we learn, John Berger, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, Luca, Mavisbank, meadow, Mike Masse, Mossgrove, newts, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Pereunt et Imputantur, Peter, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, pond, Rab Scott, Rachel, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reaching like a sweet pea for the sun, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, said the gardener, Scarborough Fair, Scotland, Show me the sun, Sian, Sian Fiona Williams, sightlines, so alive, Social maverick, Sterling Cottam, swet peas, That Summer, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, the garden moved in the breeze, The gardener, The Gentle Gardener, The manner of what we make defines us, The Rebel Antiquary, the sky belongs to us all, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Girls Singing, Vivendo Discimus, Westerton Drive

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

outdoors and a sense of proportion

I have been pruning the fruit trees in our garden and am now puggled! I find that being outdoors helps bring a sense of proportion.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2020, a gardener is always a futurist, a gardener's hand, Ageing stone, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Big Ted, Bridge of Allan, C Duncan, Domino, Drambuie, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, ducks, Edwin Morgan, Everything is growing in our garden, frogs, garden, Garden song, gardener, gentle gardener, Heidi, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, In search of lost time, It is by living we learn, John Berger, Lanny, Little Sparta, Looking through glass, Luca, Marcel Proust, Mavisbank, Max Porter, meadow, Mike Masse, Mossgrove, Mukul Kesavan, newts, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Pereunt et Imputantur, Peter Gordon, pond, pruning, puggled, Rab Scott, Rachel, Rachel Fiona Gordon, reaching like a sweet pea for the sun, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, said the gardener, Scarborough Fair, Scotland, Sian, Sian Fiona Williams, sightlines, so alive, Social maverick, Sterling Cottam, swet peas, That Summer, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, the garden moved in the breeze, The gardener, The Gentle Gardener, The manner of what we make defines us, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Girls Singing, Vivendo Discimus

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