In Praise of Nemesias
Reading time 6 minutes
When something you like grows well in your garden it makes sense to grow more of it. I count agapanthus, zantedeschia, trachelospermum and […]
Photography
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The IQ Quarry Garden
Reading time 7 minutes
What is it about the appeal of quarry-inspired gardens this year? Is because as a nation we seem determined to dig ourselves into […]
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 […]
First Light
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For those of you who like to languish in bed in the mornings, I have news for you – it’s getting light by […]
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 […]
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: Best in Show – The M&G Garden
Reading time 10 minutes
Well slap my thigh and call me Mildred, James Basson won gold and landed this year’s Best in Show for his monumental Maltese […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
Reading time 11 minutes
Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. […]
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 […]
My Perfect Ten Tulips
Reading time 11 minutes
In spite of late planting and a cold April, it has been an exceptional year for tulips at The Watch House. They have […]
Tears
Reading time 4 minutes
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there […]
A week is a long time in gardening
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It was British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who first said ‘a week is a long time in politics’. Almost sixty years later, his […]