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Jun 23

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So when you take care of yourself,
you are practically taking care of the world.
Imagine a pine tree standing in the front yard.
We ask the pine tree what it can do...
what is the maximum the pine tree
can do to help?You should be a beautiful, healthy pine tree.
You help the world by being your best.So that is applied to humans, also.
The basic thing we can do to help the world is to be healthy, to be solid, to be loving, to be gentle to ourselvesAnd when people look at
us, they have confidence.
And they say, “she can do that, I can do that too.”So anything you can do for you, you do it for the world.Don’t think that you and the world are two separate things.~ Thich Nhat HahnWith love

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Jun 21

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What a Beautiful midsummer’s day celebration at @wealdenlitfest with friends family and the wonderful community of people who love the natural world and books!Thank you Peregrine De Andrew and Laura @boldshaves for continuing to host this fabulous event ten years on! @sevenoaksbookshop for the books, @zakskombucha for the fizz, @woodchurchwine @pizza.lily for coffee and pizza! @luluflux for the lessons in clothes care, @polben.art for the nature based pigments.., @together_bynature for beautiful ceramics ~ so many more extraordinary artisans.. @deringstudio and fantastic authors ~
@botanica_health
@naturedockids @peterfrankopan …it’s on again tomorrow so if you can go tomorrow DO!I loved my talk with @charlotte_molesworth_garden and @luciewillan about the art of gardens and kindness, and loved hanging out with my favourite amongst several favourite Carolines !@carolinesands_floraldesign and @instacrk @crjessel @carolinejessel carolinefoley and some lovely new faces too.., @hattieoliveryogapilates .., thank you everyone who got books signed and shared some really moving conversations.Then home to currants and supper outside. A full full happy cup of summer.Happy solstice ✨

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Jun 16

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.~ Mary OliverHave a lovely week

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Jun 15

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Practising Carpe diem in the most lovely company.carpe diem quam maximum credula postero,
to take a liberty with Horace.~ Odes (I. 11), published in 23 bce

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Jun 12

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Ten years on.. a quick visit to this beautiful garden where we changed levels, designed a new arrival, planting, gates, water sculptures and generally gave the elegant historic house the gracious setting she deserved.So many happy memories of time spent here since!@marianboswallstudio
@taviagethin#historicbuildings

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Jun 10

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You could smell ripe strawberries before you saw them, the fragrance mingling with the smell of sun on damp ground. It was the smell of June, the last day of school, when we were set free, and the Strawberry Moon, ode’mini-giizis.~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass❤️🍓♥️🌝
@robinwallkimmerer
#strawberrymoon
#braidingsweetgrass
#Anishnaabe
#odeminigiizis🍓

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Jun 9

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We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell.Compared with
their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature
in ourselves.~ Thich Nhat HahnHave a lovely week.

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Jun 7

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Stakeholder engagement @marianboswallstudio.Here Houdini the orphan duckling checks out future wildlife pond locations.#lovemyjob
#lifeasalandscapearchitect
#houdini
#wildlifelovers

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May 25

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Hurrah for the @nationalgardenscheme!What a brilliant institution where garden owners and stewards, their friends AnD their family all give up their time to organise an open day to share their work and their private space, and we all get to visit, drink tea, talk plants, eat cake and support fantastic charities.It was so lovely to take my mother to Kenfield today. We sat and chatted to people from Dover, Yorkshire, Whitstable, Wales, Norway and next door!We bought beautiful pottery from Forest @together_bynature (who is running some gorgeous courses btw) and admired the handiwork of @flowerladyali and @thesecretbreath who have tended this garden so lovingly for ten years since @marianboswallstudio made a mess with diggers and walls, trees and pergolas etc!The new garden with stunning @alitex_ greenhouse has been seeded with @kentwildflowerseeds from locals Charlotte and Fred Denne, and loverly compost from @thefriendlyfarmers ~ because as the @theoakandropecompany slogan says, “what you put in determines what you get out”..A truly heartwarming cameo of England in May.@nationalgardenschemekent
@opengardens
#charitygarden

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May 23

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What a treat! A visit to Knepp to see Charlie Harpur and the trail blazing work he and Suzie and the team are doing in the gardens.Chop and drop taken to a new level of art form, habitat piles as sculpture, top level horticulture and a deeply satisfying curiosity in how to evolve and work with the natural world we are an intrinsic part of. Do visit!Isabella was the first person to review my book and did it with a speed and generosity that has set a high bar for me forever more. So it was an honour to be invited to talk at one of their supper series, where important topics can be aired in an intimate setting.Fabulous fresh food from the estate, lots of friends old and new, a glimpse of baby horses, baby storks and all topped off with the absolute pinnacle of joy.. well listen to the end to hear. 🎶Next speaker is Adam Nicolson on birdsong..Thank you !
@charlie.harpur
@isabella.tree
@kneppwilding
@kneppwildingkitchen
@sarahsalway 📸🙏
@honordevereux#chalktocoast
#knepp
#storks
#regenerativedesign
#thekindestgarden
@quartobooksuk
@marianboswallstudio

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May 22

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Our presence here means the presence of all our ancestors. They are still alive in us. Every time we smile, all the generations of our ancestors, our children, and the generations to come—all of whom are within us—smile too. … the stream of life continues.~ Thich Nhat HanhThoughts on the beauty of impermanence at sunrise.Have a beautiful day#norahjones
#thichnhathanh
#impermanence
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May 17

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Saturday afternoon in the garden with @kentlifemag and lovely articles on books beavers birds and bookstores! Thank you Anna Lambert and @_whatkatydiduk for talking about The Kindest Garden and why regenerative gardens are the way forward. 🌱Also excellent piece on beavers🦫 by @kentwildlife and on Kentish bookstores 📗@capellisbooks @chapterscoffeeandbooks and @moolikeamonkeyBook photography by brilliant @jasoningram 🙏📸
#kentlife
@thebeaverstrust
@visitkent
#wealdofkent
@quartobooksuk

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May 16

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If all you need to be happy is a garden and some books.. why not add in lots of friends, fabulous food and a chance to talk about soil soul and society?!It was a total joy to give a talk on the Kindest Garden at Kenfield House, kindly hosted by some very favourite people I started working with over thirteen years ago. Thank you for buying books ~ All proceeds went to @nationalgardenschemekent who raise money for some great causes including @macmillancancer and @horatiosgarden. Thank you @nicolajdd and NGS team!What an amazing group of farmers, growers, CIC founders and funders, artists and architects, old friends and yoga teachers gathered to swap ideas and create community. Thank you @thesecretbreath for giving up your yoga barn and for being just the best hosts, clients and fun friends.Here’s to the incredible Kent community, and the naissant @chalktocoast!Gorgeous swing from @theoakandropecompany says “plant your love and let it grow”.Garden managed by @flowerladyali 🙌
Agrimagic Compost from @phillipsrupert @thefriendlyfarmers
Food by @stella_grove_personal_chef🥂Garden will be open on May 24th and 25th. See NGS website to book.The Kindest Garden with photography by @jasoningram published by @franceslincolnpub part of @quartobooksuk🙏🤗 to @kate_fenwick123
@corinnewickham @nicky.berger @angesnape#ngsopengardens
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May 14

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Thirteen years on.. and opening for the NGS charity for the first time, gorgeous Kenfield House will raise funds for great causes through @nationalgardenschemekent“In an AONB, this lovely 3½ acre garden has many areas varying from a white garden and a wild garden with an orchard and unusual trees, to a spiral lawn. There are several flowering borders of perennials and shrubs and wild flowers abound in several unmown areas. The influence of Marian Boswall can be seen in the design and planting plan from when she recreated this garden in 2012.”Booking in advance recommended via the NGS website. Open 24th and 25th May.#ngs
#gardenvisits
#visitkent
@visitkent
@marianboswallstudio
@thesecretbreath

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May 14

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Posted @withregram • @42acresretreat When Marian Boswall visits us at 42 acres the land always seems to answer. Nobody has seen the beavers on the lake so intimately and reliably and the gardens seem to shine with a sense of purpose when she walks through.
Her new book ‘The Kindest Garden’ is a guide to help us work towards feeling for a landscape as Marian does. This work and the book before it ‘Sustainable Garden’ has been so useful to the 42 acres garden team helping them to consider garden materials and their environmental impact; the life in our soils; garden habitat for diverse fauna and flora; the value of water as resource and magnet for life; and resilient planting for an unpredictable future. Marian also shows how examples of large scale regenerative projects and their approaches can be applied to the garden setting.‘The Kindest Garden’ though has really struck a chord and resonated as the human element in nature and the garden has been beautifully explored. It has been a chance to reflect on how our approach towards a garden and the nature within it can tell us a lot about the people we are. Along with being kind to nature; we need to be kind to ourselves.Thank you @marianboswall for writing such a wonderful book that will seed itself at 42 acres forever more.📗🌱💚🙏🎶 Thank you by @seth_tabatznik of @betheearth.foundation, founder of @42acresretreat and beautiful visionary being.My thank you’s to @riglerrussell @lisah1111 @walshbrid @rafalbartnicki_ @edwardsrozie plus the many others who have left beautiful energy there.

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