How To Enjoy Your Garden In April
Reading time 31 minutes
April is one of the most joyful and uplifting months in the garden. Days are longer, temperatures are increasing steadily and it finally feels […]
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Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden
Reading time 12 minutes
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 […]
Great Balls of Fire – Sandling Park in May
Reading time 8 minutes
There was such an extraordinary amount going on in May that I am now working through a draft post pile-up. In contrast to the scarcity […]
Daily Flower Candy – An Unknown Auricula
Reading time 3 minutes
I am falling ever further behind with my list of posts to write, which on balance is a lot better than having nothing to say […]
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 […]
The Stage is Set
Reading time 5 minutes
It struck me last weekend that, amid all the frantic garden visiting, I’ve written very little about what’s been going on in our town […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Primula japonica ‘Postford White’ AGM
Reading time 1 minute
I’m continuing the water garden theme this week with one of my ‘plants of the moment’, candelabra primulas. I’ve been photographing them in various […]
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 […]
Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent
Reading time 8 minutes
The far south east corner of Kent is frequently overlooked, regarded by many as nothing more than the down-at-heel gateway to the delights of […]
The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park.
Reading time 8 minutes
Lysichiton camtschatcensis, The Western Skunk Cabbage. Last weekend the sun came out. For those of you who are not British, sunny weather, even when […]
The Valley of the Black Cranes – Gangtey and the Phobjikha valley
Reading time 8 minutes
I once read that your preference for different kinds of landscape stems from a deep seated evolutionary instinct related to the race you’ve descended […]