It’s time to order spring bulbs again. My problem is that I love them all and my wish list can […]


It’s time to order spring bulbs again. My problem is that I love them all and my wish list can […]

Don’t tell anyone I said this, but I’m not very good at growing plants from seed. I always buy too […]

A friend on Twitter mentioned this clematis recently and remarked on how long it had been flowering in his garden. […]

I’m not all that keen on pink, and yet I seem to end up with a lot of pink flowers. When […]

I have too many alliums in my garden. Their leaves make fine highways for slugs and snails and hamper every […]

If it’s July it must be Hampton Court. RHS Hampton Court Show is a big site, with a wide variety […]

The foxglove has been one of my favourite flowers since the time when I was small enough to look up […]

I struck a cutting from a friend’s Abutilon vitifolium var. album about ten years ago. Once it was a decent […]

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 […]