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 […]
Photography
My Favourite Walk: Chapel Porth Valley, St Agnes
Reading time 12 minutes
I have been walking down and up the valley to Chapel Porth for over forty years. Not continually, of course, but at […]
Wonder Walls Part II
Reading time 8 minutes
Each time I return to the West Country I am reminded just how damp it is compared to Kent. A crude comparison of […]
The Great Dixter Dozen
Reading time 3 minutes
It’s rare that I sacrifice commentary for imagery, but as I look back over the photographs I took at Great Dixter last weekend, […]
Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair 2017
Reading time 10 minutes
Every visit to Great Dixter is a treat, but when the additional carrot of a plant fair is dangled in front of my […]
Daily Flower Candy: Epimedium zhushanense ‘Zhushan Fairy Wings’
Reading time 3 minutes
I’ve reached that point in the year when the number of posts I have time to write is overtaken by the number of […]
Spring at The Salutation
Reading time 9 minutes
If I were to win the lottery, The Salutation is the house I’d want to live in. I’d spend every spring and summer […]
Daily Flower Candy: Acacia longifolia
Reading time 4 minutes
Acacia longifolia: long-leaved wattle, acacia trinervis, aroma doble, golden wattle, coast wattle, sallow wattle, Sydney golden wattle Winter has returned for its last […]
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 […]
The Amazon Man Cometh
Reading time 6 minutes
Oh dear. Him Indoors has gone skiing and left me alone, at home, with only my credit card for company. It’s dangerous territory, […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2017
Reading time 9 minutes
The RHS London shows ought to be a pleasure for me to visit; they take place just five minutes from my office and […]
Reappraising Gerberas
Reading time 6 minutes
It’s day three of my involuntary, lurgy-related incarceration. As you can imagine, I am not coping with it well. Yesterday, having taken until […]