Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The Wedgwood Garden – A Classic Re-imagined
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I can scarcely believe it’s over a week since that fateful press day at Chatsworth Flower Show where we all got drenched and […]
Planting Design
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The IQ Quarry Garden
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What is it about the appeal of quarry-inspired gardens this year? Is because as a nation we seem determined to dig ourselves into […]
The Floating Pocket Park, Merchant Square, London
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Last week history was made with the opening of London’s first Floating Pocket Park at Merchant Square, Paddington. Measuring 730sq metres this new […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
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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 […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Preview
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Hot on the heels of Chelsea comes the Royal Horticultural Society’s newest, most exciting show at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Home to the […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Chengdu Silk Road Garden
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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 Preview
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I am taking a different approach to my Chelsea Flower Show coverage this year. Recent events and the amount of time I am […]
The Great Dixter Dozen
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It’s rare that I sacrifice commentary for imagery, but as I look back over the photographs I took at Great Dixter last weekend, […]
Le Jardin Secret, Marrakech
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To create a new garden and open it to the public in the space of three years would be a challenge for the […]
Castle Park Physic Garden, Bristol
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As I alighted from the train at Bristol Temple Meads station on Saturday, I worked out that it had been 25 years since […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Royal Bank of Canada Garden
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Before I wind up my coverage of the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show there are two posts I feel compelled to write. The first […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Viking Cruises Mekong Garden
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For some reason the woodland ride that connects the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Gardens seemed particularly quiet this year. On previous visits this […]