Box Open Gardens 2016
Restraint, revamping and retro For self-confessed ‘plantaholics’ Wendy Rochefort and Andrew Dawes show remarkable restraint in their garden, part of . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Online plant nursery guide launches
A chance remark by Monty Don on BBC Gardeners’ World has led to a project to support independent nurseries and the . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #23
There’s nothing quite like a carpet of Anemone blanda in the spring.
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Chelsea change welcomed
Hospice to get inside view of flower show When I catch up with Royal Horticultural Society judge Richard Sneesby, he’s . . .
Read moreReview: Gardens of the Italian Lakes
Friends smiled when they heard I was reviewing Steven Desmond’s Gardens of the Italian Lakes. We are known as the . . .
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Nursery holds garden contest
Young gardeners are being encouraged to have a go at creating their own garden in a competition run by a . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #22
Holboellia brachyandra spotted at Crug Farm Plants.
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A surprise in the Cotswolds
It’s always good on a garden visit to see something a bit different but few Cotswold gardens deliver quite the . . .
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Chelsea Flower Show: rocks and reflections
Chelsea is all about rocks and colour this year. Stone features on many of the gardens and there are vibrant, . . .
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