The Floating Pocket Park, Merchant Square, London
Reading time 6 minutes
Last week history was made with the opening of London’s first Floating Pocket Park at Merchant Square, Paddington. Measuring 730sq metres this new […]
Landscape Design
Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
Reading time 10 minutes
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 […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Chengdu Silk Road Garden
Reading time 9 minutes
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 Preview
Reading time 17 minutes
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
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 […]
King’s Cross Rising
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Although I class myself as a country boy, I have spent the majority of my life living as an urbanite. I count myself […]
Il Giardino di Boboli, Florence
Reading time 18 minutes
The Medici of Florence were not only one of the richest families in Europe for a time, but also phenomenal garden makers. They […]
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2016: Show Gardens – Part I
Reading time 13 minutes
I am not a negative individual by nature, but I had misgivings about this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Some of the […]
Castle Park Physic Garden, Bristol
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As I alighted from the train at Bristol Temple Meads station on Saturday, I worked out that it had been 25 years since […]
Stourhead Revisited
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“We reached Stourhead at 3 o’clock. By that time the sun had penetrated the mist, and was gauzy and humid ….. Never do […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Royal Bank of Canada Garden
Reading time 9 minutes
Before I wind up my coverage of the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show there are two posts I feel compelled to write. The first […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The M&G Garden
Reading time 9 minutes
And now for something completely different, a garden that should appeal to those of you with more freestyle sensibilities. There are always one […]