Gardens of Remembrance
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month: even gardeners stop their weeding, pruning and bulb planting […]
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Fireworks in the Garden
From a design perspective, all those hours spent deciding which plant should go where can be ruined in a few
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Halloween – Pumpkins, Apples and Turnips
Are you ready for the ‘trick or treat’ Halloween mob? Maybe this year you should quiz them in the uses of
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Pumpkins, Halloween and the Three Sisters Garden
Late October and the gardener’s mind turns to pumpkins, especially when they have children who are hoping for a jack
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Apple Trees – Designing the Garden of Eden?
Designing a garden to include lots of fruit is always satisfying. At this time of year my imagination leaps off
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Leaf Compost
Autumn – or Fall as the Americans call it; a very descriptive name for a season epitomised by leaves falling
Tomatoes and the Aztecs
Ripe tomatoes eaten sun-warmed, fresh off the vine; rotten tomatoes traditionally thrown at bad actors and performers on stage; green
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Cucumbers, Pompeii, August Bank Holiday
Well, its bank holiday weekend in England, Wales and Ireland; Scotland had theirs the first Monday of the month. It
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Weeds – Bindweed
“There’s bindweed in here” As gardeners, garden designers and garden consultants, we see a lot of weeds during our working
Lavender’s blue, nettles sting, but are they both herbs?
Most people consider herbs to be plants with medicinal, culinary or cosmetic uses. However, a herb is also any annual,
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Hampton Court – tennis or flower show?
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show takes place in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. With the Wimbledon finals happening as well
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Why is Friday 13th unlucky? Plant Lore and Garden Myths
It is probably the juxtaposition of ‘unlucky Friday’ and ‘unlucky 13’ that has made much of Western civilisation so nervous
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Garden Visits – Washington, Peanuts and Independence Day
I’m torn this week between extolling the delights of American gardens as we are near July 4th – which is
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Strawberries, seeds and tennis
Did you know that there are over 200 seeds in the average strawberry? That’s more seeds than are appearing at Wimbledon this year.
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How not to buy Garden Plants
How not to buy Garden Plants. Or to put it another way, when you get to the garden centre or
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Show Chelsea a Flower
There is, funnily enough, a showy element to this week’s blog. It is that time of the year again after
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Garden Pests and Predators – Foxes
Foxes probably top the larger garden pests chart if you live in an urban or suburban area. They’re certainly one of
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May Day and Mayday
“Mayday, mayday, mayday” you probably recognise the call as being an internationally recognised distress call; but did you know that
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Drought? Flash floods? Water in the Garden
Drought? Flash floods? The wrong sort of rain? The British can certainly suffer from a both an excess and a
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Garden Pests and Predators – an Introduction
Garden pests and predators bear some definition. Your garden pests vary in size from tiny aphids through to deer. Similarly,
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Weeds
Warm weather, warm soil, rain, sunshine all make the garden grow. The downside is that this is as good for weeds
Daffodil bulb – poisonous bulbs
Sitting down to lunch on a daffodil bulb may sound exotic, but.. .(NB Bad poetry alert) Daffodils are deadly, Be
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Composting – a load of rubbish?
Composting – Did you know that the first organised landfill was happening c5000 years ago in Crete? Now we’re running
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February half term Garden Fun in the Greenhouse
Not many of us can aspire to a greenhouse of a style like those at Kew Gardens. Those are serious
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Choosing Christmas Trees
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches…” Or are they? Choosing Christmas Trees can be an
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