Daily Flower Candy: Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’
Reading time 5 minutes
Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’: winter-flowering cherry, rosebud cherry January can be a debilitating month, all dark, dreary and joyless. When I think of […]
Trees and Shrubs
Daily Flower Candy: Jasminum nudiflorum
Reading time 6 minutes
Jasminum nudiflorum: winter jasmine Most plants when translated from their native habitat into gardens adapt quite nicely. Some run riot, others curl up and […]
When The Wind Blows
Reading time 10 minutes
I am not a cold person, temperature or temperament wise, but when the wind blows from the north, as it did this weekend, I […]
Garden Appreciation: Sweetbriar, Ash, Kent
Reading time 16 minutes
When a new garden opens for the National Garden Scheme it's always exciting, but when that garden has been created by two professional […]
True Blue
Reading time 6 minutes
There is nothing more irritating for a gardener than to strive unsuccessfully to cultivate a plant, only to discover that someone who apparently […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: BlueBell Nursery
Reading time 4 minutes
I’ve been to a lot of flower shows and admired a lot of outstanding show stands, so it takes a lot for an […]
First Light
Reading time 4 minutes
For those of you who like to languish in bed in the mornings, I have news for you – it’s getting light by […]
In a Tuscan Garden
Reading time 11 minutes
My job takes me to all sorts of interesting places, some nice, some not so nice, but always interesting. This week I have […]
My Favourite Walk: Chapel Porth Valley, St Agnes
Reading time 12 minutes
I have been walking down and up the valley to Chapel Porth for over forty years. Not continually, of course, but at […]
The Great Dixter Dozen
Reading time 3 minutes
It’s rare that I sacrifice commentary for imagery, but as I look back over the photographs I took at Great Dixter last weekend, […]
Spring at The Salutation
Reading time 9 minutes
If I were to win the lottery, The Salutation is the house I’d want to live in. I’d spend every spring and summer […]
Running to Stand Still
Reading time 6 minutes
With April bright on the horizon I am already having to get a wiggle on to keep up with what needs doing in […]