Chelsea Flower Show 2022 Preview – A Garden Sanctuary
Reading time 11 minutes
Enjoy a quick tour of this serene, Japanese-inspired garden conceived as a space to decompress and reconnect with nature.
Wild Flowers
How To Enjoy Your Garden in May
Reading time 37 minutes
How to get the most out of your garden in the merry month of May.
Discovering Daffodils
Reading time 11 minutes
It’s a little known fact – so little known that one might almost call it a secret – that the first job I ever […]
Delos Reimagined
Reading time 10 minutes
I imagine I have a lot to deal with at The Watch House, but being the custodian of a large, historic garden is a […]
Plant Profile: Ivy-leaved toadflax
Reading time 7 minutes
Cymbalaria muralis: Ivy-leaved toadflax, ivywort, Kenilworth ivy, coliseum ivy, Oxford ivy, mother of thousands, mother of millions, thousand flower, pennywort, wandering sailor, Aaron’s beard, […]
Violet Time
Reading time 5 minutes
One of the many frustrations of having flu is that everything tastes and smells odd. Apparently viral particles linger longer in the nose and […]
Winter Heliotrope: Petasites fragrans
Reading time 5 minutes
What better way to start the New Year at The Frustrated Gardener than with a plant that flowers through the darkest, coldest months. The […]
Whatever the Weather
Reading time 8 minutes
The elements just keep on giving this year. In the space of three months we’ve had record cold and record […]
The Best Things in Life are Free
Reading time 5 minutes
I have largely avoided being drawn into snowdrop mania this year. I have no snowdrops in my garden (which is […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 – The Show Gardens: Brownfield Metamorphosis
Reading time 7 minutes
I’m very aware that I am not opening my Hampton Court coverage with classically beautiful gardens. In my quest to offer the fullest […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Best in Show – The M&G Garden
Reading time 10 minutes
Well slap my thigh and call me Mildred, James Basson won gold and landed this year’s Best in Show for his monumental Maltese […]
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 […]