Daily Flower Candy: Erigeron glaucus (beach aster)
Reading time 4 minutes
The recipe for a classic seaside garden is as tried and tested as that for the most British of cakes, a Victoria Sandwich. Take a sheet […]
Plants
Daily Flower Candy: Echium wildpretii
Reading time 3 minutes
Native to the Canary Islands, echiums are sky-rocketing giants of the plant world. But, like an unfortunate child star, they reach their peak early […]
Pole Position
Reading time 5 minutes
Somehow, and not by design, we have ended up with scaffolding on both houses simultaneously. I know maintenance has to be carried out, but this […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
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In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Edo no Niwa by Ishihara Kazuyuki
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I changed my plans this year and instead of dashing headlong for Main Avenue when the show opened on Tuesday, I hung a left […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The People’s Choice: Sentebale – Hope in Vulnerability
Reading time 7 minutes
I feel for Matt Keightley, the garden designer who narrowly missed out on a Chelsea gold medal for two years running. Last year his […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: World Vision and Dark Matter
Reading time 7 minutes
Big budget show gardens are all well and good, but it was two of Chelsea’s smaller gardens that really impressed me on Tuesday. The ‘Fresh’ category is […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden
Reading time 12 minutes
At about 10.30am yesterday morning a small crowd surrounded Monty Don and RHS Director General Sue Biggs as they prepared to announce the prize […]
A Walk on Walmer’s Wild Side
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We needed to blow away the cobwebs today, so settled on a drive down to one of our favourite spots, the stretch of coastline […]
The American Garden, Saltwood, Kent
Reading time 7 minutes
Primped and polished gardens are all very well (we’ll be seeing a lot of them at Chelsea in a few days’ time) but for […]
Time Out
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Late yesterday afternoon as I was watering, it struck me that I never take the time to enjoy my garden. Quite why this came […]
No Rest For The Wicked
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It’s one of those weeks when the balance between getting stuff done and writing about it tilts in favour of the former. After a […]