Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – People’s Choice Award: Hope on the Horizon
Reading time 7 minutes
No doubt spurred on by TV talent shows, where the audience as well as expert judges get a vote, the RHS introduced People’s Choice awards […]
Ferns
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Stars of the Show: A Garden for First Touch at St George’s
Reading time 7 minutes
Over the years the rock bank site at Chelsea has provided the setting for some of the show’s most exciting gardens. Last year it […]
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
Reading time 9 minutes
For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became […]
Easter Treats at Trevoole
Reading time 5 minutes
It’s all go at Trevoole as the team prepare for tomorrow’s opening. The gardens are full of camellias, primulas and early tulips, intermingled with slowly unfurling […]
Three New Projects
Reading time 6 minutes
In my current job, holidays are pretty much an impossibility between October and the end of March. The plus side to the inevitable fatigue […]
Trevoolery
Reading time 3 minutes
We do not get back to Cornwall often enough, but the arrival of my sister’s new baby spurred us into making the five hour […]
Growing Vertical in Victoria
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Victoria, once a grey and unexciting slice of central London sandwiched between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, has been undergoing something of a transformation. […]
A Walk Around The Peak
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Spending time in Hong Kong is no great hardship. But after a week in showrooms so crammed with Christmas sparkle that you can almost […]
Longstock Park Water Garden, Hampshire
Reading time 9 minutes
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 […]
A Spring Spectrum – Sandling Park, Kent
Reading time 7 minutes
There are those that frown upon the lusty delights of rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas. I am not one of them. I expect these naysayers […]
Daily Flower Candy: The Eden Project
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Our last visit to The Eden Project in Cornwall was in spring 2011. Here, a dappled river of forget-me-nots and dog’s-tooth violets (Erythronium ‘Pagoda’) […]
Fried Fiddleheads and Asparagus
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Yes, you’ve got it, these are young fern fronds, otherwise known as fiddleheads or, here in Bhutan, as ‘Nakey‘. They are either fried as […]