Gardens on the edge #1
A dazzling debut Living in a county with so many good gardens, I rarely have to travel far to find somewhere . . .
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Review: New Small Garden by Noel Kingsbury
In common with many people, my first proper garden was small. A typical back-of-terrace town plot, it was narrow, overlooked . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #32
Wish I could grow hydrangeas as blue as this.
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Gardening ideas to pinch
Forget the tea and cake or sitting somewhere beautiful enjoying the results of someone else’s hard work, the reason I . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #31
A touch of something exotic.
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Gardens open by arrangement
Beautiful borders, unusual plants, design inspiration or maybe just the lure of cake, whatever the reason, the Gloucestershire National Gardens . . .
Read moreSaving the Bramley apple
Batsford Arboretum, long known for its tree preservation role, is helping to safeguard a piece of British culinary history – . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #30
I just love the pink centre!
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Growing medicinal herbs
There must be a gardening gene, I muse as I gaze at Davina Wynne Jones’ Cotswold garden. As the daughter . . .
Read moreCharity heads to Tatton Park
Cotswold-based charity Meningitis Now is taking its award-winning garden to the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park, which opens today. ‘Believe . . .
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