Happy Hostas
Reading time 5 minutes
A cool, wet start to May has been just what the hostas ordered. Plants in our London garden are emerging lush and leafy, so […]
Plants
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
Reading time 9 minutes
For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became […]
Spring comes to Saltwood
Reading time 5 minutes
Yesterday the hedgerows were heavy with may flower and vital with leaf as we drove from Broadstairs to Saltwood Castle for the 2014 NSPCC plant fair. […]
A Green Moment
Reading time 5 minutes
The British Isles are defined by the colour green. It should really be represented on our national flag, or at the least extolled by our national […]
Kentish Belles
Reading time 3 minutes
Over the next couple of weekends, two of Kent’s most beautiful and enigmatic gardens will be opening their gates to the curious public. Both reveal their secrets […]
Blooming Bosvigo
Reading time 7 minutes
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Olearia phloggopappa ‘Combers Pink’
Reading time 2 minutes
Nestled deep in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, was the location for one of our Christmas photo shoots. It may sound strange, but I live […]
Daily Flower Candy – Spring Greens
Reading time 2 minutes
I have been out working in our London garden this evening. With a gentle rain falling the air is filled with the scent of fern […]
Something for Everyone
Reading time 6 minutes
It has been an almost perfect Easter weekend. There’s been sunshine for outdoor DIY, rain for the plants (they needed it) and sufficient time to […]
Easter Excess
Reading time 6 minutes
Unlike our London garden, which is having an unscheduled green moment, our coastal garden is a riot of colour this Easter. For the first time this […]
Loving London
Reading time 3 minutes
I am not a born Londoner, and for much of the time I like to believe I’d prefer living elsewhere. That is until I make […]
Triumph Over Adversity – Tresco Abbey Garden
Reading time 13 minutes
When, in 1834, the handsome Augustus Smith secured the lease for the Isles of Scilly, I wonder if he was aware of the legacy […]