The Watch House NGS Open Day 2018
Reading time 14 minutes
Over the weekend we welcomed over 300 visitors to The Watch House, breaking records and surprising us all. At times it was a […]
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34 Cross Road, Walmer: A Garden For All Senses
Reading time 9 minutes
Living and gardening by the coast, I find my senses become attuned to a very specific set of sensations: the sound of seagulls, restless […]
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 […]
Christmas at The Watch House
Reading time 13 minutes
Motivated by the prospect of an OK-style, ‘At Home with Mr Christmas’ photoshoot this week, I have been decorating every corner of The Watch […]
Heligan Harvest
Reading time 9 minutes
I first started visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan as a student in the very early 1990s. By then the Tremayne family’s forgotten […]
Eternal Eden
Reading time 5 minutes
I can smell Cornwall before I can see it. Driving across the ancient border between Devon and Cornwall at night it’s pitch black, […]
In The Night Garden
Reading time 10 minutes
When was the last time you ventured out into your garden after nightfall? Not at dusk, or to put the rubbish out, but to […]
How Does my Garden Grow? August
Reading time 11 minutes
My garden has come together rather later than usual, but come together it has. Unburdened by not opening for the National Gardens Scheme, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Mirabilis longiflora ‘Angels’ Trumpets’
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Although I find growing from seed one of the most rewarding aspects of gardening, I have done so less and less in recent […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hedychium densiflorum ‘Sorung’
Reading time 5 minutes
Ginger lilies are disgustingly straightforward to grow, which is satisfying when one considers their fabulously exotic appearance. Hardy gingers from the genus […]
Last Hurrah
Reading time 10 minutes
Slowly but surely the petals are falling from my tulips, one by one, leaving skinny seed pods where yesterday hovered fat balloons of […]