It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Reading time 7 minutes
In my world it’s Christmas every day, but there comes a point, around now, when the rest of the nation starts to wake up to […]
Foliage
Trengwainton Gardens, Cornwall
Reading time 9 minutes
From a very early age my parents took me and my sister to visit gardens. I like to think the reason was to cultivate […]
Daily Flower Candy: Rhus typhina
Reading time 3 minutes
The list of plants I’d like to grow if I had space is endless and trees would make up many of that number. I […]
Coming Home
Reading time 5 minutes
There’s nothing like a long spell away from home to remind you of what you take for granted …. and sometimes what you might do […]
Alive and Kicking (健在で)
Reading time 2 minutes
Those of you wondering where The Frustrated Gardener has got to need not worry. I am alive and kicking in China, having just been to […]
Daily Flower Candy – Cuscuta epithymum
Reading time 2 minutes
If you’ve ever passed a gorse bush on a cliff top or heath and wondered why it’s covered in something resembling a blanket woven […]
The Remains of the Day
Reading time 6 minutes
There comes a point every year when I begin to lose sight of our London garden. It’s nothing to do with my failing vision […]
The Winds of Change
Reading time 4 minutes
I’ve just come in from the garden, where the temperature has dropped dramatically since lunchtime. A brisk, rain-laden breeze has whipped up, carrying away summer’s last […]
Trebah Gardens, Cornwall
Reading time 10 minutes
On the steep sides of the Helford River in Cornwall lie two famous gardens, as similar in style as the two halves of a […]
Daily Flower Candy: Kniphofia rooperi
Reading time 3 minutes
Before the Second World War kniphofias, better known as red hot pokers, were one of Britain’s most popular garden plants. They sustained gardeners’ Victorian […]
Lost for words
Reading time 1 minute
Rarely do I find myself lost for words but tonight, as I consider my return to work and the inevitability of autumn, I feel a […]
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall
Reading time 12 minutes
Cornwall’s great gardens are, by and large, gardens that were created over 100 years ago and that have developed organically ever since. A handful have been rescued […]