Review: The Botanical City by Helena Dove and Harry Ades
It’s easy to imagine that beyond the domestic garden, it’s nigh on impossible to really appreciate nature in the middle . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #246
These surprise me every year in the garden. Just when I’ve given up on flowers, they appear almost overnight. Such . . .
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Review: American Gardens by Monty Don & Derry Moore
At a time when visiting gardens is difficult and getting to America even harder, travelling by book is the next . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #245
One of the stars of the cutting bed for today’s dose of floral cheer. I grew this for the first . . .
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The Malvern Plant & Garden Fair – Is This The New Normal?
My flower show season always ends at Malvern but little did I think as 2020 started that it would be . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #244
After two really good days at the Malvern Plant & Garden Fair, it seemed only right that today’s flower came . . .
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Trench Hill Has Autumn Magic
Trench Hill at Sheepscombe opens for the National Garden Scheme this weekend. I’ve been to have a look. The enthusiasm . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #243
This has been an absolute star in my garden this year. It’s flowered more than ever and the blooms have . . .
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What’s New at Highnam Court
I hadn’t been out to Highnam Court for more than a year so I knew there would be plenty of . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #242
A rose for a Bank Holiday Monday and a new arrival in my garden. Meet ‘Eustacia Vye’, which is blooming . . .
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