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 […]
Agaves
Relaxing, Riviera Style
Reading time 3 minutes
I am on holiday and therefore I must relax: at least that’s what Him Indoors keeps telling me. The problem is I don’t find […]
Agave Aggravation at the Italianate Glasshouse
Reading time 5 minutes
Little survives of Sir Moses Montefiore’s East Cliff Lodge, a once magnificent mansion and garden straddling the boundary between Broadstairs and Ramsgate in Kent. The […]
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall
Reading time 12 minutes
Cornwall’s great gardens are, by and large, gardens that were created over 100 years ago and that have developed organically ever since. A handful have been rescued […]
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 […]
Return to the Salutation
Reading time 8 minutes
With both gardens almost locked-down for winter it’s time to start writing about some of the places that have not yet made it on […]
Butterflies in Birchington – Quex Park, Kent
Reading time 6 minutes
As is so often the case, the things that are on your own doorstep are the first to be overlooked. And so, somehow, we […]
Beautiful Stranger – Beschorneria yuccoides
Reading time 3 minutes
This weird and wonderful creature is Beschorneria yuccoides, a rare but hardy yucca-like plant, flowering in our seaside garden last year. Its bluish-green leaves […]