Exploring Great Dixter and Gravetye Manor
There’s always a slight apprehension about visiting a garden that’s long been on the ‘must see’ list. Will it be . . .
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Category: Gardens
Celebrating Tulips at The Laskett
With its stage set gardens within a garden, wide-ranging array of topiary, and eye-catching urns, stonework and statues, it could . . .
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Managing Change at RHS Wisley
It’s always been the why behind a garden that’s interested me as much as what’s in it. Why it was . . .
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Exploring Kew’s Orchid Festival
I was expecting colour at Kew’s Orchid Festival but not quite the dazzling display I encountered – or the wild . . .
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A New Season at Colesbourne Park
There’s something reassuring about Nature I thought as I wandered around Colesbourne Park. The seasons change and plants reappear no . . .
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Snowdrop gazing at Downton House
Downton House opens for the National Garden Scheme Snowdrop Festival next week. I’ve been to have a look around. There’s . . .
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Eking Out Summer at Cerney House
We had our first frost last week. It was only enough to dust house and shed roofs but still a . . .
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Autumn Colour at Waterperry Gardens
We may have had a difficult growing season but it hasn’t held back the display at Waterperry Gardens. There was . . .
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Sustainable Gardening at Whatley Manor
I’ve been chatting to Head Gardener David Pearce about how the exclusive Cotswold hotel Whatley Manor is embracing sustainable gardening. . . .
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Rose of the Year 2023 at Iford Manor
Iford Manor was the venue for the launch of Rose of the Year 2023 and what a perfect setting it . . .
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