Garden Journal
RHS Chelsea 2023 - Garden or Landscape?
We’re back at RHS Chelsea for the thirteenth time. Every year there is a hot topic for debate and, this year, I am sure we will hear a continuation of...
RHS Chelsea 2023 - Garden or Landscape?
We’re back at RHS Chelsea for the thirteenth time. Every year there is a hot topic for debate and, this year, I am sure we will hear a continuation of...
Looking after ‘Annabelle'!
Summer growth is finally appearing and Charlie, the cat, has taken up her familiar position beside the Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ – some cats seem to be sent into a...
Looking after ‘Annabelle'!
Summer growth is finally appearing and Charlie, the cat, has taken up her familiar position beside the Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ – some cats seem to be sent into a...
Surely Spring is just around the corner!
I feel I have become a Cassandra, uttering prophecies of doom about the garden after what has been a savage winter. We seem to have a severe one every seven...
Surely Spring is just around the corner!
I feel I have become a Cassandra, uttering prophecies of doom about the garden after what has been a savage winter. We seem to have a severe one every seven...
A Celebration of Women
As we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, I wanted to pay tribute to three of the giants on whose shoulders much of modern garden design and planting was...
A Celebration of Women
As we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, I wanted to pay tribute to three of the giants on whose shoulders much of modern garden design and planting was...
Garden Trends for 2023
It’s now late January and we can look back on a year of turbulent weather patterns which brought to us in the south west a prolonged drought; an exceptionally wet...
Garden Trends for 2023
It’s now late January and we can look back on a year of turbulent weather patterns which brought to us in the south west a prolonged drought; an exceptionally wet...
Behind the scenes at Muntons: Looking ahead to ...
I wrote earlier this month about the intense cold that has characterised parts of this winter and which has turned my thoughts away from the more marginally hardy plants that...
Behind the scenes at Muntons: Looking ahead to ...
I wrote earlier this month about the intense cold that has characterised parts of this winter and which has turned my thoughts away from the more marginally hardy plants that...