Monthly Archives: January 2012

This week I have been working at home a lot, trying to catch up with paperwork: a backlog of orders for seeds and summer bulbs, this blog, and plant lists and picture collections for talks. Boring, but it has to be done. I am, however, very excited to have been asked to speak at The International Specialist Nursery Days at Bingerden in the Netherlands this June..

The days are getting longer, bulb shoots are popping up all over the place, but still I have been feeling uneasy. The sun has been shining, warming my back and casting crisp shadows on the pots but still I have cold shivers down my spine. Spring has been galloping towards us, trailing flowers and green shoots, tempting honey bees to emerge and causing the birds to jostle for position and fly purposefully about with bits of twig in their beaks..

I have decided to do an occasional series introducing you to some of the people and processes at Whichford Pottery and it seems logical to start with Jim Keeling - the man with whom the buck stops. He is the founder of and, after 35 years, still the main creative force behind Whichford Pottery...