Garden Journal
An insider's take on an autumnal RHS Chelsea Fl...
I must start by acknowledging the RHS’s bold decision to hold its flagship show in September, highlighting the season’s late flowering and not its early burgeoning. After two seasons of...
An insider's take on an autumnal RHS Chelsea Fl...
I must start by acknowledging the RHS’s bold decision to hold its flagship show in September, highlighting the season’s late flowering and not its early burgeoning. After two seasons of...
How do other gardeners do it? Planting design i...
Over the summer I have made it my mission to visit gardens near us in Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties. They inspire me both by giving me new ideas of...
How do other gardeners do it? Planting design i...
Over the summer I have made it my mission to visit gardens near us in Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties. They inspire me both by giving me new ideas of...
Autumn: Rethinking your planting design
I have spent the summer visiting other gardens and coming back to take a fresh look at my own. I have been rethinking beds that aren’t quite right and planning...
Autumn: Rethinking your planting design
I have spent the summer visiting other gardens and coming back to take a fresh look at my own. I have been rethinking beds that aren’t quite right and planning...
How to be a water-wise gardener
When I first thought of writing about ways to conserve water, we were in the halcyon days of early summer when rules were being relaxed a little, the sun seemed...
How to be a water-wise gardener
When I first thought of writing about ways to conserve water, we were in the halcyon days of early summer when rules were being relaxed a little, the sun seemed...
Plants That Need Supporting Now Part 2: Climbers
The heavy, heavy rain of mid-June, I suspect, has found us all out! I thought that my peonies were well supported and was sure that most of the big herbaceous...
Plants That Need Supporting Now Part 2: Climbers
The heavy, heavy rain of mid-June, I suspect, has found us all out! I thought that my peonies were well supported and was sure that most of the big herbaceous...
Plants that need supporting now Part 1: Herbace...
As always with the weather in Britain, it is impossible to predict what the year will bring and when the growing season will start.
Plants that need supporting now Part 1: Herbace...
As always with the weather in Britain, it is impossible to predict what the year will bring and when the growing season will start.