Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Viking Cruises Mekong Garden
Reading time 6 minutes
For some reason the woodland ride that connects the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Gardens seemed particularly quiet this year. On previous visits this […]
Climbers
Return to Eden
Reading time 10 minutes
It is May 2000 and I am standing in a long line of chattering, excitable people wearing white hard hats. This is not an […]
Christmas Flower Candy: Cobaea scandens
Reading time 3 minutes
If you live in the Northern hemisphere, you may consider Cobaea scandens, otherwise known as cup and saucer vine, an odd choice of Christmas Flower […]
Daily Flower Candy: Clematis vitalba
Reading time 4 minutes
Clematis vitalba: Old man’s beard, traveller’s joy, virgin’s bower, ladies’ bower, love vine, traveller’s ivy. When the feathery seed heads of Clematis vitalba start […]
Daily Flower Candy: Convolvulus sabatius
Reading time 3 minutes
Mention the name bindweed and the first thing that springs to mind is one of gardeners’ greatest horrors, hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium). Undoubtedly beautiful in […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
Reading time 5 minutes
In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Canarina canariensis
Reading time 3 minutes
Regular readers may already have noticed that I am sucker for a subtropical plant. On a cold Sunday in February, whilst visiting London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Crocus chrysanthus ‘Herald’
Reading time 3 minutes
I wished for snow, and it came, although not the right kind of snow. It began promisingly, fine and dusty, but rapidly transformed itself into […]
The Very Best of 2014 – A Year In Pictures
Reading time 21 minutes
I embark on my review of 2014 with a degree of trepidation, as this year did not turn out to be quite as joyful as […]
The Remains of the Day
Reading time 6 minutes
There comes a point every year when I begin to lose sight of our London garden. It’s nothing to do with my failing vision […]
Lost for words
Reading time 1 minute
Rarely do I find myself lost for words but tonight, as I consider my return to work and the inevitability of autumn, I feel a […]
Old Bladbean Stud, Elham, Kent
Reading time 10 minutes
Joyful and life affirming is how I’d describe the garden at Old Bladbean Stud. Hidden among the labyrinthine lanes of South East Kent, owner […]