Between the lines

September 10, 2017

By far the most exciting thing to happen to me in the middle of a rainy and slightly frustrating week …

Gardening words: An Orchard Odyssey

January 23, 2017

It is time to think of fruit. Gleaming apples and fat ripe plums; perfumed quinces and sugary pears. Great heavy …

June 7, 2016

It is a rare garden writer whose words make you look entirely differently at the plants you have known all …

February 20, 2012

The Morville Hoursby Katherine Swift This beautiful, heartfelt, classic work of garden writing is poised just at the point where …

May 4, 2011

Home Ground: Sanctuary in the CityDan Pearson You know, I do sometimes wonder why Dan Pearson ever became a garden …

January 7, 2011

I have many books about garden design on my bookshelf. The likes of Robin Williams, John Brookes, Tim Newbury, Piet …

January 4, 2010

I’m quite easy to buy Christmas presents for, since more or less anything gardening-related will do (except plants: friends and …

January 15, 2007

I’m currently reading Anna Pavord’s “The Tulip” – it’s been around for a while, but I thought since I’ve spent …