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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Tag: National Garden Scheme
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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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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Brockworth Court Forced to Rethink
All gardens evolve but sometimes change is forced upon them. At Brockworth Court, the arrival of the box moth caterpillar . . .
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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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Garden Challenges at Kirkham Farm
The location of Kirkham Farm may give it wonderful views but it’s not without challenges when it comes to making . . .
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South Lodge – Working With Nature
South Lodge opens for the National Garden Scheme this week. I went to have a look around ahead of its . . .
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Breaking the Rules at Downton House
With the plethora of gardening advice around it’s easy to imagine that there’s only one way of doing things but . . .
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Winter Colour at The Picton Garden
Unexpected discoveries are one of the best things about my job. Usually it’s a new garden that turns out to . . .
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A Welcome Return to Barnsley House
For various reasons I haven’t been out to Barnsley House for a while and even then I can’t remember visiting . . .
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