Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 – The Show Gardens: Kinetica
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Designer John Warland has been a constant and stimulating presence at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in recent years. His gardens […]
Garden Design
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The Wedgwood Garden – A Classic Re-imagined
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I can scarcely believe it’s over a week since that fateful press day at Chatsworth Flower Show where we all got drenched and […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The IQ Quarry Garden
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What is it about the appeal of quarry-inspired gardens this year? Is because as a nation we seem determined to dig ourselves into […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Press Day
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Today the famous British weather excelled itself … in drenching everyone from Mary Berry to Alan Titchmarsh, in flattening countless delphiniums and in […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
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Given the paucity of show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I regret not having written more about last year’s crop, which […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Preview
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Hot on the heels of Chelsea comes the Royal Horticultural Society’s newest, most exciting show at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Home to the […]
The Merry Month of May
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O THE month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Chengdu Silk Road Garden
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When I go to the Chelsea Flower Show, I want to see flowers. Whilst in the Great Pavilion this expectation is met in […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Best in Show – The M&G Garden
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Well slap my thigh and call me Mildred, James Basson won gold and landed this year’s Best in Show for his monumental Maltese […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
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Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017 Preview
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I am taking a different approach to my Chelsea Flower Show coverage this year. Recent events and the amount of time I am […]
Spring at The Salutation
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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 […]