Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
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Given the paucity of show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I regret not having written more about last year’s crop, which […]
Flower Shows
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Preview
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Hot on the heels of Chelsea comes the Royal Horticultural Society’s newest, most exciting show at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Home to the […]
The Merry Month of May
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O THE month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Chengdu Silk Road Garden
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When I go to the Chelsea Flower Show, I want to see flowers. Whilst in the Great Pavilion this expectation is met in […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Best in Show – The M&G Garden
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Well slap my thigh and call me Mildred, James Basson won gold and landed this year’s Best in Show for his monumental Maltese […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
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Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017 Preview
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I am taking a different approach to my Chelsea Flower Show coverage this year. Recent events and the amount of time I am […]
Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair 2017
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Every visit to Great Dixter is a treat, but when the additional carrot of a plant fair is dangled in front of my […]
RHS Botanical Art Show 2017
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Had I not been a landscape architect, gardener or fashion designer – all professions suggested by my school careers advisor, who was largely […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2017
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The RHS London shows ought to be a pleasure for me to visit; they take place just five minutes from my office and […]
Reappraising Gerberas
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It’s day three of my involuntary, lurgy-related incarceration. As you can imagine, I am not coping with it well. Yesterday, having taken until […]
RHS London Harvest Festival 2016
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Autumn has truly arrived when it’s time for the RHS London Harvest Festival show. This annual event comes at a busy time for me, […]