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Pictorial – and how
When we bought seed for the new flowery meadow to be sewn in the New Orchard, the website told us that the annual mixture of seeds would produce a brilliant show from mid-May to the cold weather of November ...
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A Book for Cooks
ow about this? The Independent has voted my recent book, A Book for Cooks published this autumn by Merrell, one of the 50 best books out this season ...
![Duck and Grouse](https://www.columbinehall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Richard-at-big-chimney_3-150x150.jpg)
Duck and Grouse
Columbine Hall has a very large chimney, built, we think, in Tudor times. Our builder once reckoned that it might be made up of no fewer than 10,000 small, hand-made bricks (this does seem unlikely.) ...
![Spice, girls](https://www.columbinehall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Spices2-1-150x150.jpg)
Spice, girls
I have just finished writing A Book for Cooks (published by Merrell this autumn). This is a list of my 101 favourite cookery books (I collect them.) ...
![Flowery Meadows](https://www.columbinehall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/flowerymeadow-150x147.jpg)
Flowery Meadows
This year we decided to plant a pictorial meadow - pictorial because, though it looks similar to a wild flower meadow, the flowers are not all wild. We were just in time ...
![Wild About Garlic](https://www.columbinehall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bBoggdnfromW_1-150x150.jpg)
Wild About Garlic
The chives and wild garlic are up and so is the sorrel (buckler leaved, like little medieval shields). Apparently, sorrel is so short-lived that you will never find it in a supermarket ...
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Terracotta Pots
Where would we be without Ebay? This weekend we collected 30 large, antique terracotta plant pots from Essex ...