Kowloon Park, Hong Kong
Reading time 8 minutes
I am very fortunate to be able to travel as much as I do, but when I am away from home I miss my gardens […]
Tropical Gardens
Orto Botanico di Palermo
Reading time 11 minutes
The botanical gardens in Sicily’s first city, Palermo, are among the oldest and most important in Europe. Conceived in the late 1700’s no expense […]
Que Sera Sera ….
Reading time 4 minutes
… Whatever will be will be, as the song goes. I have reached a point now where all I can do is clean and tidy […]
The Stage is Set
Reading time 5 minutes
The stage is finally set for our open weekend on August 1st and 2nd. Any changes I make from now on will appear too obvious, […]
Cake and Kayaking
Reading time 2 minutes
Today The Frustrated Gardener celebrated three years on the World Wide Web, but there was a more significant party in town, my dad’s 70th. […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
Reading time 5 minutes
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 – The Dream Ticket
Reading time 4 minutes
Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
An Island in Bloom and a Bridge Too Far
Reading time 7 minutes
While the January storms rage outside it is a good time for me to catch up on a little reading. Next to my bedside table is […]
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall
Reading time 12 minutes
Cornwall’s great gardens are, by and large, gardens that were created over 100 years ago and that have developed organically ever since. A handful have been rescued […]
Plant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Reading time 5 minutes
Succulent plants are not everyone’s cup of tea, but one which attracted a lot of admiring glances when we opened our garden for the […]
Dazzling Dixter
Reading time 11 minutes
Having been utterly engrossed in our own garden for the last few weeks it was a relief to get out and about and start the […]
Gardening Leave
Reading time 3 minutes
No, I haven’t quit my job or been given my marching orders, but I have taken a couple of days off to prepare the […]