Chelsea Calling
Reading time 14 minutes
It’s going to be a different kind of Chelsea Flower Show for me this year. As is tradition, I shall be there on […]
Flower Shows
Cornwall Spring Flower Show 2018
Reading time 8 minutes
As great days out go, I rank a visit to the Cornwall Spring Flower Show up there with Chelsea and Sissinghurst. It’s a special […]
RHS London Orchid Show & Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 10 minutes
Orchids are extraordinary flowers. They display remarkable diversity in colour, size and form. Some are scented, some are designed to entrap insects and few, […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 9 minutes
One event in my calendar heralds the approach of spring like no other: the RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair. Throughout the first, frozen […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 – The Viking Cruises World of Discovery Garden
Reading time 6 minutes
And now, for those of you who prefer something a little more classically beautiful, may I present The World of Discovery Garden. Fresh […]
Oh I do Like to be Beside the Seaside
Reading time 5 minutes
The weather this weekend has been far too nice for sitting in front of a computer writing. Instead I’ve been watering the garden, […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 – The Show Gardens: Brownfield Metamorphosis
Reading time 7 minutes
I’m very aware that I am not opening my Hampton Court coverage with classically beautiful gardens. In my quest to offer the fullest […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 – The Show Gardens: Kinetica
Reading time 4 minutes
Designer John Warland has been a constant and stimulating presence at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in recent years. His gardens […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The Wedgwood Garden – A Classic Re-imagined
Reading time 9 minutes
I can scarcely believe it’s over a week since that fateful press day at Chatsworth Flower Show where we all got drenched and […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The IQ Quarry Garden
Reading time 7 minutes
What is it about the appeal of quarry-inspired gardens this year? Is because as a nation we seem determined to dig ourselves into […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: BlueBell Nursery
Reading time 4 minutes
I’ve been to a lot of flower shows and admired a lot of outstanding show stands, so it takes a lot for an […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Press Day
Reading time 6 minutes
Today the famous British weather excelled itself … in drenching everyone from Mary Berry to Alan Titchmarsh, in flattening countless delphiniums and in […]