Pick of the month: Cucamelon

August 30, 2016

Well. These are very curious little things. Cucamelons are the latest Big Thing in veg growing: everyone seems to have …

Cosmos at Wisley

August 27, 2016

The trials fields, at the back of Battleston Hill at RHS Wisley in Surrey, are easy to miss. You have to …

August 24, 2016

Ensete ventricosum: as seen at Woolbeding Gardens, Sussex

August 21, 2016

Summertime… and the watering is endless…. Every day I am to be found in the greenhouses behind a hose – …

August 18, 2016

This week I made something of a pilgrimage, to the garden of John Brookes OBE at Denmans in Sussex. I …

August 15, 2016

August is a funny old month. All the splendour of June and July has overreached itself a bit and, in …