Off-season garden visiting: Hestercombe

January 10, 2011

I love visiting summer gardens in the winter. Those which will let you in the gates at this time of …

A week in Northumberland #4: A wee wonder

August 6, 2009

Let me take you along a rain-slick path into a hidden garden of dripping ferns, towering leaves and vividly coloured …

October 10, 2008

Sometimes all this dampness is a lovely thing. I went to visit the gardens of Heale House in Wiltshire last …

September 26, 2008

I started my new college course this week. It’s the Plants and Plant Design course, run by Capel Manor College …

April 21, 2008

Just sometimes you meet a truly, truly memorable plant. The kind of plant you just know you’ll think about for …