Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair 2017
Reading time 10 minutes
Every visit to Great Dixter is a treat, but when the additional carrot of a plant fair is dangled in front of my […]
Kentish Gardens
Spring at The Salutation
Reading time 9 minutes
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 […]
Spring Comes to Sissinghurst
Reading time 13 minutes
How fortunate that my first visit to Sissinghurst this year should coincide with the warmest day of the spring so far. As the […]
Goodnestone Rising
Reading time 8 minutes
It was possibly a little too early to go out snowdrop spotting. In another year it might almost have been too late, but […]
Singles All The Way
Reading time 4 minutes
I love flowering bulbs. I plant thousands of them in pots every autumn and spring, ready to bloom the following season. I plant […]
So Far, So Good!
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Day two of our garden opening is always a more relaxed affair and I am thoroughly looking forward to it. On day one […]
Waiting and Anticipating
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When preparing for our garden opening, I find I end up doing anything but gardening. Over the last two days I have been […]
Going to The Chapel
Reading time 12 minutes
When a new garden opens for the National Gardens Scheme in Thanet it’s a major event, principally because there are only three others, […]
Sunshine and Showers at Saltwood
Reading time 9 minutes
I have met some Americans who believe all us Brits live in quaint thatched cottages and are intimately acquainted with The Queen. We might […]
Saluting the Salutation
Reading time 9 minutes
It was fitting that Gardeners’ World, in the first programme of the new series, chose to highlight the miraculous resurrection of the gardens at […]
Changing of the Guard at Goodnestone
Reading time 9 minutes
Great gardens to visit in East Kent are rarer than hens’ teeth. Those that open during the winter months even scarcer. So, as soon […]
Walmer Castle Gardens
Reading time 6 minutes
Like fry through the holes in a fisherman’s net, certain gardens I visit manage to escape being written about on my blog. It’s not that […]