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, […]
Planting Design
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 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 […]
Captivating Annuals
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Whilst walking along Highgate High Street this afternoon, I was stopped by these charming pots of annual plants on the steps of the local […]
Happy Hostas, Rambling Roses
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We are lucky enough to have a small garden at our London home, as well as by the seaside in Kent. On rare weekends […]
Small is beautiful
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I rarely get time to the read the weekend papers, as I am normally out in the garden, pottering. But by Monday I had […]
Out with the old, in with the new
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It always feels slightly wrong to be uprooting spring bedding, just when it appears to be reaching its zenith. However, it’s a bad idea […]
Daring Combinations
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I am already ruing my decision to plant out a number of young plants this week without hardening them off properly. So often in […]