Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Stars of the Show: The Telegraph Garden
Reading time 7 minutes
I was right about some things concerning this year’s Chelsea Flower Show; the weather was better; most designers defaulted to the tried and tested formula […]
Planting Design
Chelsea Calling
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May is well and truly here, so naturally my thoughts turn to Chelsea and what we can expect of the world’s most famous flower show […]
Blooming Bosvigo
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Very little trumps the romanticism of a well-made woodland garden. Lush, informal and unbridled it will capture the heart in its quest to mimic nature. Every […]
Refreshingly Green – West Elm, London
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Green walls are cropping everywhere in London at the moment; indoors, outdoors, in restaurant, bars, hotels and shops, it seems no establishment is complete without one. […]
Growing Vertical in Victoria
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Victoria, once a grey and unexciting slice of central London sandwiched between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, has been undergoing something of a transformation. […]
The Thames Garden Bridge – Elevated Eden or Floral Folly?
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Great cities have one thing in common – ambition. Some display this tastefully, others gaudily, but all want to be bigger, higher, newer and […]
Glorious Goodnestone, Part II: Graceful Grasses
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I have to admit I am not terribly well informed when it comes to grasses. My vocabulary extends about as far as Stipa and […]
Satisfaction
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I am, quite simply, chuffed to bits with our London garden right now. At times the transformation of our boggy, heavily shaded ‘lawn’ into […]
The Gardens of Constantine, Cornwall
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The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) is a fantastic charity, started in 1927 and now orchestrating access to thousands of private and public UK gardens […]
Castle Drogo, Devon
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My favourite architect by a country mile is Edwin Lutyens. Often described as a genius, he is most lauded for his Surrey country houses, […]
Blue Gold
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The days ahead promise more warm dry weather, but we’ve enjoyed some much needed rain today. The last time we encountered ‘the wet stuff’ […]
Wallington Hall, Cambo, Northumberland
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Northumberland is a wonderful, wild, unspoilt county in the north of England, once the frontier between rampaging Celts and civilised Romans. The region is […]