One of the joys of living in London, the forest city, is discovering one of its…
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…
My latest victim
Yamadori is the Japanese word for collecting wild trees to grow as bonsai. Today, while rustling through…
Beauty of life in all its stages (4 Macauley Road, Clapham NGS)
Time is a wonderful gift, it changes things. None are more aware of this than gardeners.
Longing for Littlebury
It is a year since we overhauled our garden – after two years of experimenting –…
Our inner city wildlife sanctuary
I grow our garden as much for wildlife as for design and plants. Wildlife adds many…
Modernist garden design at The Homewood
After learning of The Homewood while studying garden design history with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,…
Living on a prairie (part 1)
This year I took on my allotment and I designated one bed for garden design experiments.…
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…