Life in the greenhouse: August
Summertime… and the watering is endless…. Every day I am to be found in the greenhouses behind a hose – …
Summertime… and the watering is endless…. Every day I am to be found in the greenhouses behind a hose – …
This week I made something of a pilgrimage, to the garden of John Brookes OBE at Denmans in Sussex. I …
August is a funny old month. All the splendour of June and July has overreached itself a bit and, in …
It is a rare garden writer whose words make you look entirely differently at the plants you have known all …
It is June! Not very flaming, so far, but very busy. Here’s what I’ll be up to: Making comfrey tea: …
Davidia involucrata in full flower at Nymans Gardens, Sussex
As the bulldozers move in to the Chelsea showground and reduce all to turf once more, I just thought I’d …
The talk of the Pavilion this year was not the giant Pullman carriage at the Bowdens stand – but a …
The Plant of the Year competition at Chelsea has only been running a few years, but it’s really shone the …
Planting combination of the week for me was this soft confection of ethereal pastels from Hay Joung Hwang on the LG …