Garden Journal

Surely Spring is just around the corner!
I feel I have become a Cassandra, uttering prophecies of doom about the garden after what has been a savage winter. We seem to have a severe one every seven...
Surely Spring is just around the corner!
I feel I have become a Cassandra, uttering prophecies of doom about the garden after what has been a savage winter. We seem to have a severe one every seven...

A Celebration of Women
As we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, I wanted to pay tribute to three of the giants on whose shoulders much of modern garden design and planting was...
A Celebration of Women
As we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, I wanted to pay tribute to three of the giants on whose shoulders much of modern garden design and planting was...

Garden Trends for 2023
It’s now late January and we can look back on a year of turbulent weather patterns which brought to us in the south west a prolonged drought; an exceptionally wet...
Garden Trends for 2023
It’s now late January and we can look back on a year of turbulent weather patterns which brought to us in the south west a prolonged drought; an exceptionally wet...

Behind the scenes at Muntons: Looking ahead to ...
I wrote earlier this month about the intense cold that has characterised parts of this winter and which has turned my thoughts away from the more marginally hardy plants that...
Behind the scenes at Muntons: Looking ahead to ...
I wrote earlier this month about the intense cold that has characterised parts of this winter and which has turned my thoughts away from the more marginally hardy plants that...

Adapting our gardens
As 2022 draws to its close, both gardening magazines and the radio have been reflecting on the extreme weather conditions that have plagued us during a year which is likely...
Adapting our gardens
As 2022 draws to its close, both gardening magazines and the radio have been reflecting on the extreme weather conditions that have plagued us during a year which is likely...

Getting ready for Winter
After a long autumn of above-average temperatures, we have been shrouded in damp, cold fog for several days. I’d rather forgotten what foggy days were like but in my school...
Getting ready for Winter
After a long autumn of above-average temperatures, we have been shrouded in damp, cold fog for several days. I’d rather forgotten what foggy days were like but in my school...