By royal appointment #2

May 10, 2015

I am inordinately fond of very old gardening manuals. Most of the ones I’ve collected from second-hand bookshops and garage sales have …

Designing history

December 15, 2011

Princess Beatrice’s garden at Carisbrooke Castle: Edwardian? Mediaeval? Or 21st century? I’ve been wondering a bit lately about all these …

April 6, 2010

Did you know the 18th century landscape designer Humphry Repton turns up in Jane Austen’s novel, Mansfield Park? No, I …

April 23, 2008

While I was in Cornwall (told you I’d be going on about it a bit) I popped into the National …

March 7, 2008

When I’m not out in the garden, or writing about it, it seems I’m listening to things about it… This …