Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Dream Ticket
Reading time 4 minutes
Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
Planting Design
Great Expectations – Chelsea Flower Show 2015 Show Gardens
Reading time 8 minutes
Only fifteen days into the New Year and the RHS have offered the public a glimpse of how the show gardens will look at this year’s […]
Dazzling Dixter
Reading time 11 minutes
Having been utterly engrossed in our own garden for the last few weeks it was a relief to get out and about and start the […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2014: Vestra Wealth’s Vista
Reading time 5 minutes
I had never heard of Vestra Wealth before this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and that’s for one very good reason – I […]
RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2014 – Show Garden Highlights
Reading time 13 minutes
Chelsea needs to watch her back. Her bigger, louder and brighter sister at Hampton Court Palace is slowly but surely stealing her crown. Chelsea […]
The Watch House Awaits….
Reading time 17 minutes
In just less than two weeks, we open our garden at The Watch House in Broadstairs for the National Gardens Scheme. It has not been […]
Old Bladbean Stud, Elham, Kent
Reading time 10 minutes
Joyful and life affirming is how I’d describe the garden at Old Bladbean Stud. Hidden among the labyrinthine lanes of South East Kent, owner […]
All Change!
Reading time 7 minutes
They say a change is as good as a rest. Normally I’d agree with that, but the amount of turmoil we’ve had through June […]
Elham NGS Open Gardens
Reading time 12 minutes
Nestled in a broad, fertile valley cutting a swathe through East Kent, Elham is the very essence of England. During W.W.II Sir Anthony Eden lived in a […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014: Artisan Gardens
Reading time 7 minutes
Away from the hype and hubbub of Chelsea’s Main Avenue, two categories of show garden highlight the newest talent and the most innovative ideas […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – People’s Choice Award: Hope on the Horizon
Reading time 7 minutes
No doubt spurred on by TV talent shows, where the audience as well as expert judges get a vote, the RHS introduced People’s Choice awards […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Stars of the Show: A Garden for First Touch at St George’s
Reading time 7 minutes
Over the years the rock bank site at Chelsea has provided the setting for some of the show’s most exciting gardens. Last year it […]