Summer Containers – Four Recipes for Success
Reading time 19 minutes
Planting in containers is one of the most fun and rewarding activities one can do in the garden. Here are four examples to inspire your next summer container planting project.
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Dentists and Indulgences: The Return from Chelsea
Reading time 8 minutes
There is nothing quite like a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show to galvanise one into action vis-à-vis one’s own garden. I returned […]
Waste not, want not
Reading time 6 minutes
I don’t have many dislikes. Of those I do, chief among them is waste. Rather ambitiously, one might say naively, I spent £300 […]
The Big Apple Beckons
Reading time 4 minutes
Although I live and breath Christmas year-round, it’s an annual business trip to New York that really marks the beginning of my festivities. I […]
The Evening Crowns The Day
Reading time 2 minutes
‘The evening crowns the day’ was one of my grandmother’s favourite sayings. As is so often the case in Cornwall where she lived, a […]
Inspiring Irises
Reading time 4 minutes
A punishing week at work, now followed by a debilitating bout of tonsillitis, has left me feeling less than enthused about the arrival of […]
Planting Spring Bulbs in Containers
Reading time 10 minutes
It’s now or never for me in terms of planting spring-flowering bulbs. As with most things in gardening there is the text book time […]
Pothead Bulbs
Reading time 5 minutes
Right on cue, the lovely people from Avon Bulbs delivered my order yesterday – a box packed with lilies, tulips, crocuses, Narcissus, Iris, and Alliums. With […]
Agapanthus – The Pride of Africa
Reading time 8 minutes
Agapanthus is the signature plant in our coastal garden and deservedly so. We grow Agapanthus africanus, the largest of the family, hailing from the Cape […]
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 […]
A Touch of Ginger
Reading time 3 minutes
Bringing a touch of the tropics to our garden this summer are two members of the ginger family – Hedychium densiflorum “Stephen” and Cautleya […]
Shades of Summer
Reading time 4 minutes
We have been away from our seaside garden for two full weeks. This always makes me uneasy, especially when the weather is warm […]