Daily Flower Candy: Jasminum nudiflorum
Reading time 6 minutes
Jasminum nudiflorum: winter jasmine Most plants when translated from their native habitat into gardens adapt quite nicely. Some run riot, others curl up and […]
Other People’s Gardens
Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair 2017
Reading time 9 minutes
My last hurrah before departing for India was a trip aross Kent to the Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair. I neither had the […]
Garden Appreciation: Sweetbriar, Ash, Kent
Reading time 16 minutes
When a new garden opens for the National Garden Scheme it's always exciting, but when that garden has been created by two professional […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Preview
Reading time 9 minutes
Hot on the heels of Chelsea comes the Royal Horticultural Society’s newest, most exciting show at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Home to the […]
The Merry Month of May
Reading time 11 minutes
O THE month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then […]
In a Tuscan Garden
Reading time 11 minutes
My job takes me to all sorts of interesting places, some nice, some not so nice, but always interesting. This week I have […]
Great Dixter: Pots of Plenty
Reading time 11 minutes
The recent chilly weather has had its pros and cons. The downside for eager gardeners who have been nurturing seedlings and planting out […]
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 […]
Getting Real
Reading time 2 minutes
How comforting – Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson had plant casualties. They were like the rest of us, after all. This amusing revelation […]
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 […]
Le Jardin Secret, Marrakech
Reading time 20 minutes
To create a new garden and open it to the public in the space of three years would be a challenge for the […]
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, […]