Hodges Barn – Structure and Informality
I love gardens that manage to combine enough structure to look designed with planting that’s relaxed without tipping into unruliness. . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Cheering Up Mondays #424
The cut flowers have started. So, it had to be the first blooms for this week’s cheerful flower. This is . . .
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Country Charm at Hookshouse Pottery
Borders brimming with cottage garden favourites and birdsong in the air, the garden at Hookshouse Pottery is the perfect slice . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #423
Something I spotted at this year’s RHS Chelsea for today’s cheerful flower and the last of the month – how . . .
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RHS Chelsea 2024 – The Nurseries
From new plants to nurseries making their show debut, there’s plenty to see in the Great Pavilion at RHS Chelsea . . .
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RHS Chelsea 2024 – the Gardens
Last year it was Sarah Price. At RHS Chelsea 2024, it was Ann-Marie Powell’s garden that kept drawing me back. . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #422
It’s press day at RHS Chelsea so something from last year’s show seemed appropriate for today’s cheerful flower. This rather . . .
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Charingworth Court Looks East
Stay in a garden long enough and inevitably its development becomes entwined with family history – plants that were gifts, . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #421
A flower to brighten the start of the week.
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Sunshine and Flowers at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024
I don’t know what was more welcome, the first big flower show of the year or the sunshine that greeted . . .
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