This Autumn everyone I speak to has discovered a love of Symphyotrichum. Or should I say,…
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Bombay Sapphire Distillery: making gin from herbs and other botanicals amidst jaw dropping design
Chris and I popped to the New Forest for a night and stopped at the new…
11 Chelsea plant combinations you can try at home
Like my 15 Sensational Plantings to Recreate from Chelsea article last year I’m hoping to breakdown…
26 things at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018
The consensus so far from people at RHS Chelsea? “This is a good ‘un”. Variety is…
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 – first impressions
This year I’ve spent a couple of days mooching about RHS Chelsea Flower Show during construction.…
Victorian plant fashion at Lanhydrock, Cornwall
A report from our brief visit to the immaculately preserved Lanhydrock house and garden owned by…
At the end of the earth, plants – Prospect Cottage, Dungeness
An upfront confession: I’ve never seen nor heard of any of Derek Jarman’s films. A film director…
15 sensational plant combinations you can try at home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017
One of my bugbears around Chelsea time are the naysayers proclaiming the gardens are unrealistic and…
23 things at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017
The Chelsea Flower Show is nuts. People on stilts dressed only in flowers, cactus jackets, astro…
James Basson’s road to ‘best in show’ at Chelsea Flower Show 2017
There are some garden designers we see at RHS shows regularly. James Basson is one that came…
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 – Press Day Highlights
It’s hard to take in the brain blitz that is the Chelsea Flower Show in one day…
30 unreal photos of London garden design in the dead season
Winter is a fresh season. Everything is stripped back, cleansed and reset for the coming year. It’s…
Landscape design at Stowe Garden in Buckinghamshire
Back in November Chris and I had the opportunity to spend a sunny Autumn afternoon at Stowe…
Have you ever changed your mind about a plant you hate?
We all have them, a list of plants we dislike. Yet every now and then something…
That sinking feeling – RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
The other week Chris and I went to RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show where two…
From the streets: Brighton’s futuristic municipal planting
I don’t know what they put in the water down in Brighton (where I work) but…
Lambeth Palace Gardens
As part of the RHS Level 3 course we have to learn about different garden design…
24 Things at the Chelsea Flower Show 2016
This is my third year at the Chelsea Flower Show and it remains an emotional experience.…
Rousham: getting to the heart of landscape garden design
As I arrived at Rousham, the single other visitor was leaving and I had the entire place to…