Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Edo no Niwa by Ishihara Kazuyuki
Reading time 5 minutes
I changed my plans this year and instead of dashing headlong for Main Avenue when the show opened on Tuesday, I hung a left […]
Landscape Design
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 […]
Daffodil Week: Going Public
Reading time 5 minutes
Nothing is more cheering on a sunny spring day than a broad swathe of daffodils emerging from lengthening grass, or a delicate cloud of cherry blossom hovering […]
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 […]
An Island in Bloom and a Bridge Too Far
Reading time 7 minutes
While the January storms rage outside it is a good time for me to catch up on a little reading. Next to my bedside table is […]
On The Bridge
Reading time 4 minutes
You may recall that a year ago I wrote about The Garden Bridge, a proposed crossing on the Thames in London. With planning permission […]
The Topiary Thieves
Reading time 3 minutes
My regular trips to China offer few opportunities to observe nature up close. By and large I’m confined to big, ugly cities few people […]
Trebah Gardens, Cornwall
Reading time 10 minutes
On the steep sides of the Helford River in Cornwall lie two famous gardens, as similar in style as the two halves of a […]