Gardens open by arrangement
Beautiful borders, unusual plants, design inspiration or maybe just the lure of cake, whatever the reason, the Gloucestershire National Gardens . . .
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Category: Gardens
Growing medicinal herbs
There must be a gardening gene, I muse as I gaze at Davina Wynne Jones’ Cotswold garden. As the daughter . . .
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Growing veg beautifully
Rarely do gardeners call in a top designer to help with growing veg. While most gardens I visit have a . . .
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Gardening every inch
I rarely meet a gardener who is happy with the space they’ve got. We all long for just one more . . .
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Icomb Open Gardens
Icomb Open Gardens offers the chance to get some gardening inspiration at a lovely Cotswold village with many sloping sites. . . .
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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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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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Barnsley House starts again
Blight, battles and bold beginnings The laburnum arch at Barnsley House with its golden racemes of flowers hanging down to . . .
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Eastcombe, Bussage and Brownshill Open Gardens
Garden design tricks transform plot There’s something about a well designed garden that shouts out the minute you enter. Maybe it’s . . .
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