Great Balls of Fire – Sandling Park in May
Reading time 8 minutes
There was such an extraordinary amount going on in May that I am now working through a draft post pile-up. In contrast to the scarcity […]
Foliage
Chelsea Flower Show 2014: Artisan Gardens
Reading time 7 minutes
Away from the hype and hubbub of Chelsea’s Main Avenue, two categories of show garden highlight the newest talent and the most innovative ideas […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – My Top 10 Plants
Reading time 11 minutes
Despite the inevitable fuss over the show gardens, the highlight of my visit to Chelsea Flower Show is always the Great Pavilion. At 12,000 square […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – People’s Choice Award: Hope on the Horizon
Reading time 7 minutes
No doubt spurred on by TV talent shows, where the audience as well as expert judges get a vote, the RHS introduced People’s Choice awards […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Stars of the Show: A Garden for First Touch at St George’s
Reading time 7 minutes
Over the years the rock bank site at Chelsea has provided the setting for some of the show’s most exciting gardens. Last year it […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Stars of the Show: The Telegraph Garden
Reading time 7 minutes
I was right about some things concerning this year’s Chelsea Flower Show; the weather was better; most designers defaulted to the tried and tested formula […]
Anticipation
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For the lucky few – journalists, celebrities and royalty – the Chelsea Flower Show starts today. The rest of must wait until 8am tomorrow […]
Plants in Detail – Gunnera manicata AGM
Reading time 3 minutes
You may have picked up on my recent fascination with large, jungly-looking plants. I don’t really have room for such colossi in either garden, but I can still […]
Happy Hostas
Reading time 5 minutes
A cool, wet start to May has been just what the hostas ordered. Plants in our London garden are emerging lush and leafy, so […]
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
Reading time 9 minutes
For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became […]
Up on the Roof
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Just two flights of stairs away from one of Britain’s busiest retail floors, six storeys above Oxford Street, lies London’s newest urban green space. The Frustrated Gardener […]
Spring comes to Saltwood
Reading time 5 minutes
Yesterday the hedgerows were heavy with may flower and vital with leaf as we drove from Broadstairs to Saltwood Castle for the 2014 NSPCC plant fair. […]