Many people have asked how I arrived
at the name Privet and Holly for my web log.
When first thinking of starting a blog,
I pictured two neighbors, coffee or tea cups in hand,
leaning over a hedge that separated their properties,
deep in a lovely conversation.
Soon after I first imagined that scene,
I was looking through a book I own entitled
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden.
It is a charming book, first written in 1906
as Nature Notes and published posthumously
in 1977 with the current title.
As I flipped through the book,
looking for possible name inspirations {I love English gardens},
there it was, on page 170....privet and holly.
Since I had heard of privet hedges in England
and you often see holly used as hedges in America,
particularly in the South, the combination seemed like
a natural one to adopt as my own!
