Making Veddw Garden 17: The Steps.
We just needed a way to get up to the Magnolia Walk. And I had read how important it is to be generous with the width of your paths [...]
We just needed a way to get up to the Magnolia Walk. And I had read how important it is to be generous with the width of your paths [...]
Next year everything in the garden will be so much better! Next year the Clerodendrum Bungei will have spread more and more in the border with the Telekia speciosa : [...]
and yes, it came with a disaster or two. The yew hedges grew and the issue arose - what would we fill the spaces that they gave us with? [...]
Roses - yes, we've got roses! The photos are not very rosey, but this is August. The anemones are the star right now. So we do have roses, [...]
We were wild when everyone else was tame. Here is The Wild Garden with a clunky arrow showing you where you’d find it. Sometimes the idea of clearing ground [...]
My good news is that Veddw Garden is one of 100 gardens in the new RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) book: RHS Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland: Your Guide to [...]
Germaine Greer: When, at Veddw in Monmouthshire, Wareham replants the lines of vanished hedgerows with box and fills the enclosed spaces with grasses and hardy perennials, she is linking the [...]
No, I'm not referring to myself. Yes - we have a ruined cottage in the garden. Here: at 21 on the plan. I have to add a note about [...]
When a recent Instagram post on how to edit self-seeders by Marianne sparked some design pushback by Anne, they moved the mulch-rich exchange to email to wrangle over it in [...]
This is perhaps the most important part of the garden for me. It’s the view from the Conservatory and from the Terrace during the summer, when we gravitate to this [...]
When a recent Instagram post on how to edit self-seeders by Marianne sparked some design push back by Anne , they moved the exchange to email to wrangle over it [...]
Hard work does not make a great garden. It's just - hard work. Here goes: Charles removed a dripping window. We both removed a spiral staircase: Now it’s [...]