RHS London Orchid Show & Plant Fair 2018
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Orchids are extraordinary flowers. They display remarkable diversity in colour, size and form. Some are scented, some are designed to entrap insects and few, […]
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The Late Late April Show
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Spring is arriving in slow motion at The Watch House. I’ve been watching a single bud of Narcissus ‘Golden Ducat’ striving to open for […]
10 Easy Flowering Bulbs to Plant For Summer Colour
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There are few plants as rewarding and foolproof to grow as those that sprout from bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. Among their number […]
Living in the Moment
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The changing of the clocks makes an enormous difference to my enjoyment of the garden. Although the mornings have temporarily descended back into […]
Cold Front
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Hold the front page, the Beast from the East is not quite done with us yet. On Saturday we’re due to plunge back into […]
Down But Not Out
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I’ll confess last week’s wind and snow damage got me down, not that I had a great deal of time to dwell on it. […]
Counting the Cost
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I’ve been out in the garden this morning assessing the havoc wreaked by The Beast from The East and Storm Emma. It is […]
The White Stuff
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Oh! How we love a ‘snow event’ here in England. The rare instances when the white stuff descends from the heavens used to be […]
The Best Things in Life are Free
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I have largely avoided being drawn into snowdrop mania this year. I have no snowdrops in my garden (which is […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2018
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One event in my calendar heralds the approach of spring like no other: the RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair. Throughout the first, frozen […]
Launching ‘Project Dahlia’
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Having completed twenty five years service at John Lewis, ‘Partners’, as we are all known, are rewarded with six months paid leave. I will […]
10 Books on my Winter Reading List
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Having built myself a library, you would think I’d be spending all my time sitting about and reading. Unfortunately that’s so far from […]