Chelsea 2013: East Village Garden Snapshot
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I suspected it may be among my favourite show gardens, and it is. Not least because, unlike some of its peers, most of the […]
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Chelsea 2013: Best Show Garden
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The results are in, and the Trailfinders Australian Garden has been awarded Best Show Garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Congratulations to Fleming’s Nurseries, who […]
One Small Step …..
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…. not for mankind, but for The Frustrated Gardener. Having promised myself and Him Indoors that I would finally start work on our London […]
Exceptional Evergreens for Coastal Gardens
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It’s in the depths of winter, when the wind roars in from the east, that I’m reminded of the value of good evergreen trees […]
Inspiring Irises
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A punishing week at work, now followed by a debilitating bout of tonsillitis, has left me feeling less than enthused about the arrival of […]
New Year’s Resolutions
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Well, that was 2012. It was, in a word, wet, although it gave us some wonderful moments to remember. 2013 started in the normal […]
The Very Best of 2012 – A Year In Pictures
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Where has 2012 gone? Despite so many memorable occasions – the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, our trip to beautiful Burma, the birth of […]
Boxing Day Brights
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Despite vowing to stay indoors for two days and do nothing but eat, drink, read and be generally indulgent, I was persuaded to get […]
In the Bleak Midwinter
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Well, the world didn’t end yesterday, but it’s having a damn good go at ending today. We awoke this morning to lashing rain and […]
Sowing the seed for 2013
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My introduction to gardening was through the pages of seed catalogues. As a young child I could sit for hours looking through the pages […]
Planting Spring Bulbs in Containers
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It’s now or never for me in terms of planting spring-flowering bulbs. As with most things in gardening there is the text book time […]
Coming in from the cold
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With the first properly cold weather now on the horizon, a small gardener’s conundrum is what to save from the frost and what to […]