Hampton Court Flower Show 2013: Cool Gardens
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It was a hot, dry and dusty Hampton Court Flower Show this year. I returned home with my blue suede shoes looking more like […]
Garden Design
Windy Ridge, St Margaret’s at Cliffe
Reading time 7 minutes
The National Gardens Scheme is an absolutely wonderful charity, allowing gardeners and garden lovers access to thousands of private gardens across the country every […]
The Stage is Set
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It struck me last weekend that, amid all the frantic garden visiting, I’ve written very little about what’s been going on in our town […]
Wordless Wednesday: The Green Wing
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Longstock Park Water Garden, Hampshire
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The River Test in Hampshire is one of the world’s finest chalk streams, renowned for the quality of its dry fly fishing. I am […]
Houghton Lodge Gardens, Hampshire
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It came as no great surprise to learn that Houghton Lodge was once voted one of the most desirable houses in England. A letter […]
Mottisfont – The Meeting Place by the Fountain
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‘It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important’. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In Saxon times, just a […]
Chelsea 2013: The Arthritis Research UK Garden
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As the clock ticked around to 8pm on Wednesday evening, we finally reached the Arthritis Research UK Garden, winner of a gold medal and […]
Chelsea 2013: The M&G Centenary Garden ‘Windows Through Time’
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Of all this year’s Chelsea gardens, Roger Platt’s design for the main sponsor, M&G Investments, is easy to love. Some may describe it as […]
Chelsea 2013: East Village Garden Snapshot
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I suspected it may be among my favourite show gardens, and it is. Not least because, unlike some of its peers, most of the […]