Hostas and Heritage
Reading time 6 minutes
It was a nice surprise to return home from Cornwall to find the latest Plant Heritage Journal waiting on my doormat. Some weeks […]
Perennials
10 Easy Flowering Bulbs to Plant For Summer Colour
Reading time 21 minutes
There are few plants as rewarding and foolproof to grow as those that sprout from bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. Among their number […]
Cold Front
Reading time 5 minutes
Hold the front page, the Beast from the East is not quite done with us yet. On Saturday we’re due to plunge back into […]
Counting the Cost
Reading time 10 minutes
I’ve been out in the garden this morning assessing the havoc wreaked by The Beast from The East and Storm Emma. It is […]
When The Wind Blows
Reading time 10 minutes
I am not a cold person, temperature or temperament wise, but when the wind blows from the north, as it did this weekend, I […]
Preparing The Watch House for Winter
Reading time 6 minutes
When I left my garden, in early October, it was still a summer garden. By the time I returned, at the end of […]
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 […]
Heligan Harvest
Reading time 9 minutes
I first started visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan as a student in the very early 1990s. By then the Tremayne family’s forgotten […]
How Does my Garden Grow? August
Reading time 11 minutes
My garden has come together rather later than usual, but come together it has. Unburdened by not opening for the National Gardens Scheme, […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Mirabilis longiflora ‘Angels’ Trumpets’
Reading time 5 minutes
Although I find growing from seed one of the most rewarding aspects of gardening, I have done so less and less in recent […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hedychium densiflorum ‘Sorung’
Reading time 5 minutes
Ginger lilies are disgustingly straightforward to grow, which is satisfying when one considers their fabulously exotic appearance. Hardy gingers from the genus […]