Victoria G. forwarded your address, and I have been meaning to thank you for allowing our raid at Hadspen in November. We felt like two naughty mice and the experience proved most enjoyable, if a little elegiac. I picked up an ailing tray of Hemerocallis, which have bloomed the colour of a weighty Musar, and loads of Paeonia which will prove their worth next season.

I checked out the hadspenparabola.com. It is good to see some horticultural laundry being aired in public. It all seems spotless so far, and I like the transparent/egalitarian nature of the endeavour. Is the future incumbent to be bound by the proposed lay-out of the hard-surfacing? It seemed slightly arbitrary, like the position of a mihrab in the concentric rigor of a mosque. No bad thing, but I wanted to know why it is as it is, when I couldn’t see Mecca. Assumed ‘parabola’ implies the interference patterns left on the sand by the receding tide. No doubt the initial idea is far more oblique…
Good luck with it all.
PS I would love to see a copy of your article on Cedric Price. I thought his drawings were wonderful.

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 5th, 2006 at 8:22 am and is filed under Correspondence. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.