My Perfect Ten Tulips
Reading time 11 minutes
In spite of late planting and a cold April, it has been an exceptional year for tulips at The Watch House. They have […]
Foliage
Tears
Reading time 4 minutes
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there […]
A week is a long time in gardening
Reading time 4 minutes
It was British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who first said ‘a week is a long time in politics’. Almost sixty years later, his […]
Great Dixter: Pots of Plenty
Reading time 11 minutes
The recent chilly weather has had its pros and cons. The downside for eager gardeners who have been nurturing seedlings and planting out […]
My Favourite Walk: Chapel Porth Valley, St Agnes
Reading time 12 minutes
I have been walking down and up the valley to Chapel Porth for over forty years. Not continually, of course, but at […]
Wonder Walls Part II
Reading time 8 minutes
Each time I return to the West Country I am reminded just how damp it is compared to Kent. A crude comparison of […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris bucharica AGM
Reading time 4 minutes
Despite being a plantaholic, the existence of certain plants eludes me. Then, all of a sudden, a ‘new’ discovery will burst onto the scene, […]
The Great Dixter Dozen
Reading time 3 minutes
It’s rare that I sacrifice commentary for imagery, but as I look back over the photographs I took at Great Dixter last weekend, […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Epimedium zhushanense ‘Zhushan Fairy Wings’
Reading time 3 minutes
I’ve reached that point in the year when the number of posts I have time to write is overtaken by the number of […]
Spring at The Salutation
Reading time 9 minutes
If I were to win the lottery, The Salutation is the house I’d want to live in. I’d spend every spring and summer […]
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 […]