David Marsden

LATEST ARTICLES ( 161 )

• Eastward Ho!

  

  It’s because of elephants. I am incredibly excited about my trip but if it wasn’t for elephants, I wouldn’t be going. I really wouldn’t. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• The Romantic Road: Cycling Across Bavaria

  

  Can you believe it’s been over six years since Jim and I cycled along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne? Why, we were practically children. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Three Simple Ways To Encourage Insects Into Your Garden

  

  I’ve always thought that if I can entice insects and wildlife into my garden, then well… I’m doing something right; A nicely camouflaged thick-legged flower... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• We Made A Garden, Part 2

  

  Here’s more on the house and garden we bought in 2005 (and – spoiler alert – left in 2010).Beware – Grumpy TerrierThe front garden of the cottage was, as you ca... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• We Made A Garden, Part 1

  

  Here’s the first part of a post about a house Jim and I bought in the summer of 2005. It’s one of a (not very) regular series of posts about gardens and houses... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• A Choice of Paths

  

  Covid hasn’t gifted us the best of years but, for me, it had one good outcome. It nudged me in a new direction. (It also sent darkness, doubt and isolated me... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• Win ‘American Gardens’ By Monty Don and Derry Moore

  

  Is it time for a gook giveaway? I think so. ‘American Gardens’ by Monty Don and Derry Moore is published today, with an RRP of £35.00. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Cuckoo

  

  Once Upon a Time – in early May of last year – I spent a week in The Lake District with Jim and his parents. I started writing a post about our trip several... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Garden Answers Magazine

  

  If I haven’t written much for The Anxious Gardener recently, I have been writing other things. And, back in September, I was invited to submit an article to... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Erysimum Bowles Mauve

  

  Here’s is the second of my (cough) regular posts on preparing our house and garden for sale. A (cough) short while ago, I wrote about the house Jim and I... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2019 GARDENING, HOME

• The Green Woodpecker And The Magpie

  

  I’m very fortunate that my study window looks out over the canal.  It’s a grand view if an awfully distracting one.My eyes lift from my laptop all too easily... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2019 GARDENING, HOME

• Win A Copy Of ‘The Cotswold Wildlife Park, A Celebration Of The Gardens’

  

  Yesterday, at their invitation, I drove to The Cotswold Wildlife Park near Burford in Oxfordshire. I hadn’t been before and only a complete cupcake would say... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2019 GARDENING, HOME

• You Would Cry, Dave

  

  It wasn’t my garden, of course. I didn’t own it, I didn’t pay for it – at least not with money. And when I left The Priory, my responsibility for the garden... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2019 GARDENING, HOME

• A Postcard From Marseille

  

  We had to get away. There was only so long we could bear living in our squalid new house. However excited we were at finally moving to Gloucestershire and livin... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2019 GARDENING, HOME

• An Otter In Stroud

  

  Of all England’s mammals, there is one – more than any other – that I have always wanted to see in the wild.That bookOnly one animal which, since I saw that fil... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• At Last, The Priory

  

  So that’s that. The end. Ten years after starting work at The Priory – almost to the day – I’m leaving. I’ve spent about a fifth of my life here: a sobering... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• The Priory In June

  

  I will be leaving Sussex and The Priory very soon. And if I’m excited about my future life in a different part of England, my lower lip trembles sometimes at th... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Fritillaria Meleagris – The Snake’s Head Fritillary

  

  A couple of weeks ago, after months of squelch, The Priory meadow was dry enough to support the weight of the Etesia ride-on mower … as well as my added weight... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Reblogging: Lambing

  

  Here’s the second of an occasional reblogging series from my seven-year catalogue of posts.oooOOOoooIt’s not as if I need an excuse to go up to Margaret’s farm... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• My Old Wheelbarrow

  

  I am ridiculously fond of some inanimate objects.  Too fond probably.  Long association with a non-sentient – some may say soulless – thing can forge an intimat... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME