Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2015: Design Heaven or Style Circus?
Reading time 8 minutes
Just two days to go until the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show opens to the public and I’ve finally had five minutes to see […]
Garden Design
A Year in the Vegetable Garden
Reading time 6 minutes
We would not describe ourselves as vegetable gardeners, at least not yet, but since we completed a project to build raised beds in our […]
Gardening on the Edge: Foamlea, North Devon
Reading time 7 minutes
The most inspiring gardens are not always those on which huge funds are lavished or indeed the better known ones. Often they are the […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
Reading time 5 minutes
In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Edo no Niwa by Ishihara Kazuyuki
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I changed my plans this year and instead of dashing headlong for Main Avenue when the show opened on Tuesday, I hung a left […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The People’s Choice: Sentebale – Hope in Vulnerability
Reading time 7 minutes
I feel for Matt Keightley, the garden designer who narrowly missed out on a Chelsea gold medal for two years running. Last year his […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: World Vision and Dark Matter
Reading time 7 minutes
Big budget show gardens are all well and good, but it was two of Chelsea’s smaller gardens that really impressed me on Tuesday. The ‘Fresh’ category is […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden
Reading time 12 minutes
At about 10.30am yesterday morning a small crowd surrounded Monty Don and RHS Director General Sue Biggs as they prepared to announce the prize […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Dream Ticket
Reading time 4 minutes
Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
Turning Point
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The flowering of the magnolia marks a turning point in our London garden. It’s a fleeting moment, the petals falling just as they appear to be […]
Book Review – Garden Design: A Book of Ideas
Reading time 5 minutes
I love a new gardening book, which is a dangerous passion when so many fresh titles hit the shelves every year. Most are glossy, many interesting […]
Great Expectations – Chelsea Flower Show 2015 Show Gardens
Reading time 8 minutes
Only fifteen days into the New Year and the RHS have offered the public a glimpse of how the show gardens will look at this year’s […]