Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair 2017
Reading time 10 minutes
Every visit to Great Dixter is a treat, but when the additional carrot of a plant fair is dangled in front of my […]
Container gardening
Running to Stand Still
Reading time 6 minutes
With April bright on the horizon I am already having to get a wiggle on to keep up with what needs doing in […]
Coughs and Caterpillars: An Hour in the Garden
Reading time 6 minutes
It’s all going on in the garden right now. The plants have had a sniff of spring and now they are intoxicated, thrusting […]
Spring Comes to Sissinghurst
Reading time 13 minutes
How fortunate that my first visit to Sissinghurst this year should coincide with the warmest day of the spring so far. As the […]
Running Late
Reading time 7 minutes
As someone who usually extols the virtues of timeliness, I have been letting myself down rather a lot lately. I planted my spring-flowering […]
Singles All The Way
Reading time 4 minutes
I love flowering bulbs. I plant thousands of them in pots every autumn and spring, ready to bloom the following season. I plant […]
Waste not, want not
Reading time 6 minutes
I don’t have many dislikes. Of those I do, chief among them is waste. Rather ambitiously, one might say naively, I spent £300 […]
An Olympian Task
Reading time 6 minutes
As my plane to New York taxied down the runway this morning, I received a message alerting me to a missed call from […]
Little Miracle
Reading time 3 minutes
With the exception of bringing a child into the world, there is nothing in life so rewarding as growing a plant from seed. […]
When Is Too Late to Plant Spring Bulbs?
Reading time 8 minutes
If you are reading this post now, in late January, the answer is ‘not yet’, for tulips at least. Originally published in November 2016, […]
Homecoming
Reading time 4 minutes
Stepping out into the garden for the first time after a holiday is always an anxious moment. Will everything still be upright? Quite […]
The Final Countdown
Reading time 7 minutes
Twelve days to go and preparation for this year’s garden opening feels like one of those bad dreams where, try as one may, one […]