The Heat Is On
Reading time 5 minutes
I love a bit of sun as much as the next man, but when the mercury rises above 25 degrees I am not at […]
Kentish Gardens
Jungle Warfare
Reading time 6 minutes
At a certain point each year our seaside garden passes from a neat, orderly state into jungly bedlam. It becomes increasingly hard to move around without getting […]
The Watch House Awaits….
Reading time 17 minutes
In just less than two weeks, we open our garden at The Watch House in Broadstairs for the National Gardens Scheme. It has not been […]
Old Bladbean Stud, Elham, Kent
Reading time 10 minutes
Joyful and life affirming is how I’d describe the garden at Old Bladbean Stud. Hidden among the labyrinthine lanes of South East Kent, owner […]
Elham NGS Open Gardens
Reading time 12 minutes
Nestled in a broad, fertile valley cutting a swathe through East Kent, Elham is the very essence of England. During W.W.II Sir Anthony Eden lived in a […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lotus berthelotii
Reading time 3 minutes
In case you haven’t noticed I am a sucker for anything colourful, exotic and expensive looking. This goes for food, cocktails, shirts, wallpaper and […]
Great Balls of Fire – Sandling Park in May
Reading time 8 minutes
There was such an extraordinary amount going on in May that I am now working through a draft post pile-up. In contrast to the scarcity […]
Spring comes to Saltwood
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Yesterday the hedgerows were heavy with may flower and vital with leaf as we drove from Broadstairs to Saltwood Castle for the 2014 NSPCC plant fair. […]
Kentish Belles
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Over the next couple of weekends, two of Kent’s most beautiful and enigmatic gardens will be opening their gates to the curious public. Both reveal their secrets […]
Sandling Park Open Day 2014
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Spring 2013 arrived fashionably late. This was convenient for us, as we’d been travelling in Bhutan during the prime time for camellias, rhododendrons and […]
Awash With White
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Yesterday we ventured out into the storm-torn Kentish countryside. Public transport was at a standstill after hundreds of trees fell onto train lines linking […]
Seeing White
Reading time 5 minutes
Perhaps it is just me, but it seems that every gardening publication I open this month is packed with features on snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) and lists […]