In The Garden This Week
Reading time 4 minutes
Our coastal garden is starting to look really exciting now, with lots of lush growth being encouraged by the warm sunshine. It’s still very […]
Annoyances
Exceptional Evergreens for Coastal Gardens
Reading time 7 minutes
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 […]
A Tale of Two Trees
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Our only major loss in the six years we’ve been gardening by the coast was a particularly tragic one. The original planting focussed on […]
The Floating Gardens of Inle Lake
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If, like me, you’re accustomed to gardening on dry land, Inle lake in Burma is a bit of an eye-opener. For here the fruits […]
Agapanthus – The Pride of Africa
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Agapanthus is the signature plant in our coastal garden and deservedly so. We grow Agapanthus africanus, the largest of the family, hailing from the Cape […]
A Moment of Drought
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Some things are just not meant to be. I set off, already late, to visit Eltham Palace. Once the home of the Courtaulds this […]
Snails and other pests
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Mercifully, our little patch is remarkably immune from attack by plant pests and and diseases. The last two winters have put paid to the […]