A very capable man
Think of the English countryside, and it’s my guess it’ll be pretty green. There will be fields, and hedgerows, and picturesque …
Category Archives: garden history
November blooms
Flowers are getting a little thin on the ground lately. Not that there’s no colour around: quite the opposite. My …
A Tynte of Victoriana
I’ve been wanting to visit Tyntesfield in Wraxall, near Bristol, for years. So on the slightly shaky pretext of tracking …
Back to school!
Just popping up to say… there’s a 15% discount on course enrolment prices at MyGardenSchool right now, so make this …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: May
Aquilegias, tulips, peas and strawberries… late spring, such a lovely time in the garden. Click on the first image and …
By royal appointment #2
I am inordinately fond of very old gardening manuals. Most of the ones I’ve collected from second-hand bookshops and garage sales have …
Karma camellia
Hmm. I’m never quite sure about camellias. On the one hand, when they look like this, they’re fabulous. But they …
Pastures new
I am gardening again! Well – I’ve always been gardening, but not in other people’s gardens for a while. That’s …
Hampton Court in pictures: New varieties
Good ideas
Last week a lot of garden journalists emerged blinking into the open for the first major press event of the …
Sally Nex 