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As seen at Chelsea: Good ideas
As the bulldozers rumble in and we leave Chelsea for another year (pause for a muffled sob into my hanky): …
Come learn with me
I’ve done a fair bit of teaching over the years, on and off: a bit of student design critique for …
November garden: Herb garden
[Editor’s note: I discovered this post unpublished in my drafts folder today. I had meant to finish it off at …
Postcard from Chelsea: Build-up
You know Main Avenue at the Chelsea Flower Show? That elegant thoroughfare between the biggest, most glamorous show gardens of …
Of trouble-free tulips
Just look at the colour on that. These are my Tulipa sprengeri – a first foray into the world of …
New year – new blog
Hello again, and a very happy 2013 to all. I do hope this year will be a bit of an …
It’s show time!
You have to be a little bit brave to enter our village horticultural show. It’s taken extremely seriously and …
Monkeying around
Well, that’s better. The week before last I took three whole days off work to cram my head choc full …
Postcard from Hampton Court: Perfect combinations
Achillea ‘Anthea’ and Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Goldrauch’Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland Seline armeria, Geranium pratense ‘Violaceum’, Malva sylvestris ‘Zebrina’The Botanic Nursery, Wiltshire …
Sally Nex 