I have been doing a lot of gardening recently. Gardening is normally pretty high on the agenda but in June […]

I have been doing a lot of gardening recently. Gardening is normally pretty high on the agenda but in June […]
Press days at RHS flower shows are always a mixed bag for me. I am inspired and enthused by torrents […]
I’ve known Ed Ikin, head of Landscape and Horticulture for Kew’s country place at Wakehurst, for years in a virtual kind […]
I once caught the meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, at exactly the right time. Thousands upon thousands of Fritillaria meleagris […]
How rubbish was 2016 for you? According to most media it was filled with death, destruction and awful politics. Well, […]
Wednesday morning dawned, as forecast, dazzlingly clear and fiercely frosty. The garden was frozen solid and so I reasoned that there […]
As a child I had to miss the second step on the stairs and could not cross the landing at […]
Today I am thinking about a tree I nearly had. Or at least I had a little one in a […]
On Bank Holiday Monday Chris and I went to the last day of “Sculpture at Kingham Lodge” in the nearby […]
This year I had a very small part in the making of Chelsea. When Rosy Hardy first told me last […]