A Summer Stroll to Hampstead
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For the first time this year, London swelters under hot sunny skies. We took a walk from our home in Highgate across the Heath […]
Other People’s Gardens
Handsome Hollyhocks
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It’s been a great year for hollyhocks. I can’t remember seeing them look quite so good, bursting out of the ground like Roman candles […]
Butterflies in Birchington – Quex Park, Kent
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As is so often the case, the things that are on your own doorstep are the first to be overlooked. And so, somehow, we […]
The Perfect Cure for a Hangover? Easton Walled Gardens, Lincolnshire
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Having partied until the small hours, and feeling just a little bit hung over, we weren’t exactly sure if we were up to getting […]
Felley Priory, Nottinghamshire
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It’s always good to get away from the big smoke and better still to have the opportunity to visit new gardens in unfamiliar places. […]
The Salutation, Sandwich (Part 2)
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In amongst the exuberant herbaceous borders and hot, tropical plantings of The Salutation in Kent there were also some carefully considered planting combinations to […]
Cucumber Cottage, Sandwich
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Sandwich is full of lanes with quirky names such as Pondicherry Alley and Knighrider Street, each packed with an interesting mix of grand houses, […]
The Salutation, Sandwich (Part 1)
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Ever since university, where our course leader Richard Bisgrove was an acknowledged expert on Gertrude Jekyll, I have been fascinated by the relationship between […]
Sensational Sissinghurst (Part 2 – White Heat)
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The White Garden at Sissinghurst is arguably one of the most admired and imitated gardens in the world. It began as an idea in 1939, all […]
Sensational Sissinghurst (Part 1 – Wall Flowers)
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The gardens of Sissinghurst Castle in Kent must be amond the best known in England, if not the whole of Europe. They are the […]
Other People’s Gardens No.2 – Goodnestone Park, Kent (Part 2)
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One thing all this rain and cool weather has been good for is prolonging the flowering period of spring and early summer plants. Back in […]
Other People’s Gardens No.2 – Goodnestone Park, Kent (Part 1)
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Despite the showers, we set off after lunch for one of east Kent’s finest gardens. That could be read as faint praise, given east […]