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 […]
Tropical Gardens
Daily Flower Candy: Hedychium densiflorum ‘Sorung’
Reading time 5 minutes
Ginger lilies are disgustingly straightforward to grow, which is satisfying when one considers their fabulously exotic appearance. Hardy gingers from the genus […]
Fond Farewells
Reading time 7 minutes
If it were not for the soft patter of rain on the skylight above my desk, I might hear a pin drop. My […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
Reading time 11 minutes
Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. […]
A Walk in the Park
Reading time 5 minutes
They say “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. In order to avoid falling into the same trap as Jack, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Megaskepasma erythrochlamys
Reading time 3 minutes
Megaskepasma erythrochlamys: Brazilian red cloak It must appear to those less familiar with the plant world that botanists sometimes take the mickey when it […]
Le Jardin Secret, Marrakech
Reading time 20 minutes
To create a new garden and open it to the public in the space of three years would be a challenge for the […]
Pretty in Pink: Podranea ricasoliana
Reading time 3 minutes
Draped elegantly over the high walls surrounding Marrakech’s wealthier villas and riads is an elegant climber known variously as pink trumpet vine, Queen of […]
Opening Pains
Reading time 5 minutes
Had we opened our seaside garden on the usual weekend, this is the scene that would have greeted our visitors. Not bad, even […]
Plan B
Reading time 6 minutes
I have a problem. With the garden next door out of action and no immediate prospect of gaining it back, I have grown […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Viking Cruises Mekong Garden
Reading time 6 minutes
For some reason the woodland ride that connects the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Gardens seemed particularly quiet this year. On previous visits this […]
Return to Eden
Reading time 10 minutes
It is May 2000 and I am standing in a long line of chattering, excitable people wearing white hard hats. This is not an […]