Kitchen Sink Drama
Reading time 7 minutes
Not a square inch of my tiny garden goes uncultivated. Over the years I’ve found plants that enjoy, or at least tolerate, every environment […]
Aeonium
In Search of the Surreal
Reading time 15 minutes
No visit to Cornwall is complete without a spot of plant shopping. The nurseries in the county I consider home are among the best […]
Omens
Reading time 4 minutes
“I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.” Abraham Lincoln To say our current travails with the building […]
A Tale of Two Gardens
Reading time 13 minutes
Nurturing two gardens eighty eight miles apart is mainly a blessing, but sometimes a curse. The task becomes tricky if we want to […]
The Winds of Change
Reading time 4 minutes
I’ve just come in from the garden, where the temperature has dropped dramatically since lunchtime. A brisk, rain-laden breeze has whipped up, carrying away summer’s last […]
Triumph Over Adversity – Tresco Abbey Garden
Reading time 13 minutes
When, in 1834, the handsome Augustus Smith secured the lease for the Isles of Scilly, I wonder if he was aware of the legacy […]
Aeonium Envy
Reading time 2 minutes
I have loved a great many aeoniums, and lost a few too. Not to frost, which is is their main enemy in UK gardens, […]
Uncouth Cats and Kamikaze Kisses
Reading time 6 minutes
On Saturday we a had a visitation from the Assistant County Organiser for the Kent National Gardens Scheme. So naturally, what could go wrong […]
Classy Clivia
Reading time 3 minutes
A few years back my partner’s mother gave us an offset of one of the many clivias that bask in her front porch. The […]
A Moment of Drought
Reading time 5 minutes
Some things are just not meant to be. I set off, already late, to visit Eltham Palace. Once the home of the Courtaulds this […]