Knocking Through
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I’ve been a bit quiet of late and that’s because I’ve been buying a new house. We are not moving, but knocking through into […]
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In the Pink
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It’s early June and the hedgerows of England are at their most ebullient. Nowhere are they more vivacious than in the West County where the […]
Cake and Kayaking
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Today The Frustrated Gardener celebrated three years on the World Wide Web, but there was a more significant party in town, my dad’s 70th. […]
Gardening on the Edge: Foamlea, North Devon
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The most inspiring gardens are not always those on which huge funds are lavished or indeed the better known ones. Often they are the […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
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In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Edo no Niwa by Ishihara Kazuyuki
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I changed my plans this year and instead of dashing headlong for Main Avenue when the show opened on Tuesday, I hung a left […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The People’s Choice: Sentebale – Hope in Vulnerability
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I feel for Matt Keightley, the garden designer who narrowly missed out on a Chelsea gold medal for two years running. Last year his […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: World Vision and Dark Matter
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Big budget show gardens are all well and good, but it was two of Chelsea’s smaller gardens that really impressed me on Tuesday. The ‘Fresh’ category is […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden
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At about 10.30am yesterday morning a small crowd surrounded Monty Don and RHS Director General Sue Biggs as they prepared to announce the prize […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Dream Ticket
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Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
A Walk on Walmer’s Wild Side
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We needed to blow away the cobwebs today, so settled on a drive down to one of our favourite spots, the stretch of coastline […]
The American Garden, Saltwood, Kent
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Primped and polished gardens are all very well (we’ll be seeing a lot of them at Chelsea in a few days’ time) but for […]