Author: Laura Parker

Tripping the light fantastic – in Country Life

Five glorious pages in Country Life magazine

The Blessed Bramble

Singing the praises of the humble bramble in July's Scottish Field.

Fieldwatch

More white flowers than a high-class wedding

Red, red, rose

Thirteen ways to see a rose. Just for fun: a storyboard and voiceover script.

Walking with the Colonel: the d’Arcy Dalton Way

The evening sun was yawing down the Ridgeway as we approached Wayland’s Smithy. It was the shortest day of the year and we’d walked 66 miles to be here.

Who grew your jumper?

With 33 million sheep, it can’t be that hard to find a 100% British grown and made jumper. Or can it?

The women’s quarters

History is revealed by crumbling brick courses and corrugated iron poking from willowherb-strewn rubble.

The blessed bramble

Every thorn is picked out, every drupelet of blackberry shines. In Scotland the ‘blessed bramble’ had amazing healing properties.

The cypress trees of Provence, and, eventually, van Gogh

Come September, my yearning for a Keatsian beaker full of the warm south was growing stronger, and the prospect was getting closer.

Broadway twilight

The man takes a step back, and looks again at the girls amid the flowers.