Malvern magic

May 14, 2017

A happy day yesterday pottering among the plants at the RHS Spring Festival at Malvern. This is one of the …

A very capable man

November 24, 2015

Think of the English countryside, and it’s my guess it’ll be pretty green. There will be fields, and hedgerows, and picturesque …

November 7, 2015

I do love a dahlia. They were planted en masse in a vibrant late-colour display in the little garden alongside …

April 30, 2013

The other day, very quietly and without fuss, I triumphed. This is the Bible Garden, formerly a patch of scruffy …

January 7, 2013

…I was digging out stumps. Big stumps: massive ones, in fact. The kind that make you have fantasies about acquiring …