It’s almost Christmas so I’m crazy busy wrapping up work, getting ready for the family arriving…
Small garden design
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Why I’ve fallen for cut flowers
I used to be a foliage boy. I’ve changed (well, a bit). In the past I saw…
Accelerating succulent and cacti growth
One thing I remember from my childhood greenhouse and large cactus collection was how heavily I…
Having fun with shade and sun
Down the side of our Victorian maisonette is a narrow alley way. It’s where I started…
Into Autumn – colour, bulbs, robins and changes
I’ve been planting bulbs today, are there many things more satisfying? I really love this time of…
Longing for Littlebury
It is a year since we overhauled our garden – after two years of experimenting –…
4 Fundamentals of attracting wildlife in urban gardens
The other day I was in the garden watering our fern wall during one of those still and…
Summer highlights in our garden
Our experimental garden is now in its third year with lots to fix but standing back…
Tulips – worth the bother?
This year I planted over 100 tulips. I love tulips. However, while they last for a…
Tulips, planting out tomatoes early and seedlings
Tulips: the last two years I’ve tried growing some tulips and it went horribly wrong. Especially…
Pot’s Growing On: April 2016
Someone pointed out I haven’t done an update about our own garden for a while, clearly I’ve…
March 2016: Allotment woe to propagation pro
March has to be up there in my top three favourite months of the year. Yes…
Getting to grips with grasses
In 2016 I want to get to grips with ornamental grasses. In particular, using them in mixed…
Fernatic: 50 fern species, 1 living wall!
Why we created a diverse 50 species collection of ferns on one modern living wall and how…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces
In 2015 we took part in series two of the BBC’s Big Dreams, Small Spaces presented…
Dahlia experiment: cultivars put to the test!
In late 2013 I discovered Dahlias. As unbelievable as that might sound to gardeners who have grown…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces Diary: A Cat’s View
Miaow there, My name’s Rumbles, short for Mr Rumbleson Aria Wallington-Anderson. I wanted to tell you my…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces: Photo Gallery
These photos were all taken during the filming of Big Dreams, Small Spaces (2015).
The Plant & Flower Database 2015
While we had dreams of a little Victorian neon jungle of a garden, my main personal…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces Diary 4: Finished! (Late Summer)
To cut to the chase, we did it. We had a silly dream that meant everything…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces Diary 5: Autumn – after the show finished
After the show was over we were sad to see everyone go. It was so much…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces Diary 3: Summer (June – August)
June was a pretty great month for the garden. All of the ground work was done, things…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces Diary 2: Spring (March – May)
With the start of March came the news we were in! Big Dreams, Small Spaces was…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces Diary 1: Winter (January – Feb 2015)
In 2015 we took part in Big Dreams, Small Spaces. Find out how it all happened…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces: The Plan
This page summarises the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind the dream for our Victorian London botanist inspired, overgrown neon jungle of…
Planting spring bulbs – tulips, snowdrops, fritillaria and alliums
This year I’m planting my spring bulbs for the spring White Garden in three stages:
Pot’s Growing On in October 2015? Bulb planting, removing plants and adding new ones!
As the nights draw in and the temperatures turn colder, there’s a sudden sense that the…
Pot’s Growing On: cuttings to overwinter
Today I took softwood cuttings of a few plants in order to overwinter them more easily…
Planting Galanthus nivalis bulbs (Snowdrops)
Today I planted 50 x Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop) bulbs and 9 x Fritillaria meleagris ‘Alba’ bulbs.…
Planning the winter/spring white garden
Last year I attempted a ‘spring white garden’. Bit of a disaster. I was aiming for white…
Whoops, bought two mini succulents
Uh oh, what’s going on here? Two little succulents seem to have popped into my bag…
Vine weevil menace returns to Clapham!
They’re back! Those little notch mark bites on your otherwise lovely leaves. Yep, it must be…
Where did August go?!
Sorry for a lack of updates about our garden recently, I’ll have stuff to share later…
Pot’s growing on: Dahlias, Nasturtiums and… cats?
April 2015, what a month! Practically no rain and hot all month, then the weather turned…
Designer Edibles 1: Peas (Pisum sativum ‘Meteor’)
I’m on a mission to grow as many different species and varieties of plants as possible…
Pot’s Growing On: 1st April and spring is well underway
After about a year of planning for our garden this year, we’re now able to get…
Pot’s Growing on in March 2015? Keeping seedlings alive and watching the world come to life
With the spring equinox (and a non-existent cloud hidden solar eclipse) done and dusted, Clapham is…
Spring has arrived in Clapham!
Spring definitely hit Clapham this week with days of sun and temperatures high enough to be…
Big Dreams, Small Spaces: Victorian inspiration
Driven by a renewed love of plants and a brain being filled with RHS knowledge, in…
Dividing a Zamioculcas zamiifolia (ZZ plant)
I’ve had a Zamioculcas zamiifolia for some years now. In the last year, I found the…
Sowing seeds, planting clematis and pruning
Today Rumbles was doing cartwheels in the garden trying to catch a fly – the most…
February: exams done, seed sowing starts!
9th of February is a date I’ve had engrained in my mind for the last five…
Littlebury Gardens in January
I’m not sure how but it’s almost the end of January! The weather has been very…
[PHOTO GALLERY] 2015 so far
Not a lot going on in the garden right now. I’m planning, planning, planning while also…
Littlebury 2014 Flower Power
2014 was my experimental year in the garden. While everything certainly wasn’t very cohesive, there were…