Hampton Court Flower Show 2013: Cool Gardens
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It was a hot, dry and dusty Hampton Court Flower Show this year. I returned home with my blue suede shoes looking more like […]
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In The Garden This Week
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Our coastal garden is starting to look really exciting now, with lots of lush growth being encouraged by the warm sunshine. It’s still very […]
Plant Portraits: Digitalis sceptrum
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For the most part, the experience of gardening is a succession of small triumphs and minor failures, all of which make us stronger people […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2013: My Top 10 Plants
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Like a horticultural fashion show, Britain’s flower shows provide the launch pad for new ideas in gardening and the latest introductions from breeders and […]
Whitstable Castle Gardens, Kent
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On our frequent visits to Whitstable, we’ve often been intrigued by a glinting weather vane, perched high above the trees at the Tankerton end […]
Windy Ridge, St Margaret’s at Cliffe
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The National Gardens Scheme is an absolutely wonderful charity, allowing gardeners and garden lovers access to thousands of private gardens across the country every […]
The Pines Garden, St Margaret’s at Cliffe
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At long last the weekend offered some semi-decent weather, so off we set down the East Kent coast to the well-to-do village of St […]
Good Earth
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‘No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth … and no culture comparable to that of the garden … […]
Longstock Park Water Garden, Hampshire
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The River Test in Hampshire is one of the world’s finest chalk streams, renowned for the quality of its dry fly fishing. I am […]
Houghton Lodge Gardens, Hampshire
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It came as no great surprise to learn that Houghton Lodge was once voted one of the most desirable houses in England. A letter […]
Mottisfont – The Meeting Place by the Fountain
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‘It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important’. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In Saxon times, just a […]
Chelsea 2013: My Top Ten Plants
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At a show on the scale of Chelsea picking out just ten plants which really get you excited is a tough job. Every year […]