The Late, Late Tulip Show
Reading time 6 minutes
Cold weather in spring can only hold our gardens back for so long. It’s like a catapult, the further the sling is pulled back […]
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The Late, Late Daffodil Show
Reading time 12 minutes
In a normal year, I’d consider myself lucky to have one or two daffodils blooming in May. By May Day their dominion is over […]
Arctic April
Reading time 14 minutes
It has been the strangest month; cold – indeed the frostiest April in sixty years – and desert-dry. Although we’ve escaped spring frosts here […]
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 […]
How To Prepare Your Garden For A Spring Cold Snap
Reading time 10 minutes
Over the last week, we’ve been blessed with glorious spring weather. Sunshine and temperatures in the high teens and twenties (ºC) have, quite literally, […]
Hurrah! the Ides of March
Reading time 7 minutes
Our garden is at its lowest ebb from early February until the Ides of March, on the 15th of the month. Battered by gales […]
Book Review – The Kinfolk Garden
Reading time 10 minutes
I am generally reticent about writing book reviews. However, when the first couple of critiques I read online are comedically scathing, my interest is […]
Iris Reticulata ‘Pauline’
Reading time 7 minutes
In an exciting new development, the following post can now be enjoyed as a podcast as well as in text and photographs. Cultivars of […]
The Beast Is Back
Reading time 9 minutes
Our garden is not designed for snow. In the fifteen years I’ve lived at The Watch House, I can only recall it snowing four […]
February Flowers
Reading time 8 minutes
It’s that time of year when galanthophiles (the polite name for snowdrop bores) start to bombard social media with images of their pearly-white treasures. […]
Baby steps (towards spring)
Reading time 10 minutes
Every weekend is pretty much the same during the lockdown. A time to catch up on sleep, to read, phone friends and family, make […]
Hairnets and Harry Wheatcroft – The Chelsea Flower Show in 1973
Reading time 11 minutes
The Beau is a thoughtful chap. For my birthday earlier this week he managed to track down a copy of the Chelsea Flower Show […]