How to Enjoy Your Garden in March
Reading time 33 minutes
Although winter’s icy fingers cling to March, their grip weakens daily. The weather may not always be clement, but there’s no turning back now; […]
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The Late, Late Tulip Show
Reading time 6 minutes
Cold weather in spring can only hold our gardens back for so long. It’s like a catapult, the further the sling is pulled back […]
Arctic April
Reading time 14 minutes
It has been the strangest month; cold – indeed the frostiest April in sixty years – and desert-dry. Although we’ve escaped spring frosts here […]
Hurrah! the Ides of March
Reading time 7 minutes
Our garden is at its lowest ebb from early February until the Ides of March, on the 15th of the month. Battered by gales […]
Easter Extravaganza
Reading time 11 minutes
Oh the irony. For the last three years our National Gardens Scheme area organiser has been asking if we’d open the garden for a […]
Plant Profile: Tulipa fosteriana ‘Zombie’
Reading time 4 minutes
Do you remember, several months ago, when we were all potting up our spring bulbs …. each and every one of us full of […]
The Watch House in Early May
Reading time 10 minutes
I’m a little bit stuck at the moment. I don’t so much have writers’ block as writers’ constipation; that is, lots of posts backing […]
April Showers
Reading time 11 minutes
Unpredictability is the name of the game when it comes to British weather, but one old proverb certainly promises to ring true in 2019: […]
Togetherness
Reading time 6 minutes
Since my new fella has been on the scene, I have been enjoying an activity that I have rarely experienced before – gardening ‘à […]
Bulb Porn
Reading time 6 minutes
Each year, ‘order bulbs’ goes on my to-do list in July and each year it is still there in early September. By then there […]
The Magical Landscapes of Disneyland Paris
Reading time 11 minutes
There is something especially delightful about going on a holiday that one hasn’t organised. Perhaps it’s the element of surprise, or the ability […]
Watergate House, Fordwich: A Modern Romantic Garden
Reading time 9 minutes
The town of Fordwich has the distinction of being the smallest in England. Situated on the River Stour, which connects Canterbury with the English […]