On the first morning of our summer holiday in Sussex we were diverted by rain from Wakehurst…
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in early summer
My fourth trip to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and the first time at the start…
Ferns at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
I’ve gone fern mad – I don’t even know how it happened. This weekend, on my…
Fuzzy buzz: heuchera think you are?
How cool is this little fella? Buzzin around. Couldn’t get enough of the Heucheras. Cheeky tube…
15 Things at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015
Last year was my first trip to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, it changed my world.…
Pot’s growing on: Dahlias, Nasturtiums and… cats?
April 2015, what a month! Practically no rain and hot all month, then the weather turned…
NGS 2015: 51 The Chase, Clapham by Charles Rutherfoord and Rupert Tyler
The very first garden we visited last year on the National Garden Scheme (NGS) was the…
Designer Edibles 1: Peas (Pisum sativum ‘Meteor’)
I’m on a mission to grow as many different species and varieties of plants as possible…
It’s all grow in the Eden community garden
I’ve been really lucky in recent months to be allowed to use a small 2 x 2m…
Brunnera macrophylla ‘Mr Morse’
The plants are still small (they’ve seriously been through the wars after arriving near death!), so…