Midsummer’s Day Dreaming
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What an extraordinary spell of weather we have been having. It’s so hot that I am relieved to be returning home to the […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Lilium martagon ‘Arabian Knight’
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Phew! What a scorcher the weekend was. Whilst I had the right idea on Saturday, spending much of the day at my friend’s […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The Wedgwood Garden – A Classic Re-imagined
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I can scarcely believe it’s over a week since that fateful press day at Chatsworth Flower Show where we all got drenched and […]
In Praise of Nemesias
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When something you like grows well in your garden it makes sense to grow more of it. I count agapanthus, zantedeschia, trachelospermum and […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The IQ Quarry Garden
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What is it about the appeal of quarry-inspired gardens this year? Is because as a nation we seem determined to dig ourselves into […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: BlueBell Nursery
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I’ve been to a lot of flower shows and admired a lot of outstanding show stands, so it takes a lot for an […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Press Day
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Today the famous British weather excelled itself … in drenching everyone from Mary Berry to Alan Titchmarsh, in flattening countless delphiniums and in […]
The Floating Pocket Park, Merchant Square, London
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Last week history was made with the opening of London’s first Floating Pocket Park at Merchant Square, Paddington. Measuring 730sq metres this new […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
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Given the paucity of show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I regret not having written more about last year’s crop, which […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: Preview
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Hot on the heels of Chelsea comes the Royal Horticultural Society’s newest, most exciting show at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Home to the […]
First Light
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For those of you who like to languish in bed in the mornings, I have news for you – it’s getting light by […]
The Merry Month of May
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O THE month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then […]