Keep Your Summer Garden Looking Lush for Longer
Reading time 11 minutes
As mid summer turns into late summer, it’s all too easy to let your garden go to seed, literally. As a child I […]
Container gardening
Plan B
Reading time 6 minutes
I have a problem. With the garden next door out of action and no immediate prospect of gaining it back, I have grown […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hosta “Halcyon” AGM
Reading time 3 minutes
Alright, enough now, all this wet stuff has been marvellous but where’s the sun? This time last year it was scorching – so scorching […]
Standing Room Only
Reading time 6 minutes
With the garden at Polegate Cottage temporarily occupied by builders and tradesmen, I am experiencing an explosion in the plant population next door […]
A Tale of Two Gardens
Reading time 13 minutes
Nurturing two gardens eighty eight miles apart is mainly a blessing, but sometimes a curse. The task becomes tricky if we want to […]
Daily Flower Candy: Nemesia “Wisley Vanilla”
Reading time 4 minutes
I like to experiment and try new things in my two tiny gardens; hence I rarely grow the same summer annuals twice. I make […]
My Top Spring Bulbs 2016
Reading time 10 minutes
For the last two months our seaside garden has been ablaze with spring bulbs. Even if I do say so myself, this year’s display […]
Daily Flower Candy: Tulipa “Brown Sugar”
Reading time 2 minutes
“Brown sugar how come you taste so good?” So sang the Rolling Stones. I doubt Mick Jagger was referring to this Triumph tulip with […]
My Own Private Keukenhof
Reading time 6 minutes
Tulips are a special passion of mine. They are inexpensive, easy to grow, endlessly colourful and, most importantly, good to look at. I am […]
Getting to Grips – Part 2
Reading time 8 minutes
Weather wise, the start of 2016 is beginning to feel like a re-run of 2015 – a mild winter followed by a chilly spring […]
How to Create a Spring Bulb Theatre
Reading time 18 minutes
One can never plant too many spring-flowering bulbs. However tedious the chore may seem in late summer and autumn, planting spring bulbs is one […]
Daily Flower Candy: Narcissus ‘Elka’ AGM
Reading time 3 minutes
Narcissus: daffodil, daffadowndilly, jonquil, Lenten lily Daffodils are synonymous with Easter. In England they are associated with Lent and occasionally referred to as Lenten […]