Is it getting away from us?
As I attempt to view the garden with a clear eye, I’ve found I need to consider decay, disorder and dereliction. It’s the nature of a garden and garden plants [...]
As I attempt to view the garden with a clear eye, I’ve found I need to consider decay, disorder and dereliction. It’s the nature of a garden and garden plants [...]
Contemplating thuggish plants. Recently a few of us, all members of the Hardy Plant Society Monmouthshire Group, got together over a good supper to enjoy each other’s company and to [...]
Wild is now The Thing. This has made me review some of the plants in the garden. I am deciding which weeds I will choose to live with. As opposed [...]
A penny dropping. I’m not sure why I originally wanted to make a garden. I started with a need to grow things, which grew and grew until I needed to [...]
This is the time of year to enjoy the back of your flowers. Partly because they are very low down at the moment. It was years before I realised [...]
I'm just the wrong sort of person. I recently came across this quote. Someone was doing one of those ‘aren’t we all wonderful, us gardeners?’ thing: “A garden is a [...]
To Label or Not to Label? There are some of us who aspire to put plants together in a considered and beautiful setting in such a way that they offer [...]
Copyright Infringement!! The other day I was wondering if readers in America could obtain my books, if they were deluded enough to wish to. I checked on Amazon. I know [...]
Still being nagged by those garden writers. I wasn’t going to do this again. I thought that there can’t be many things we’d be told to do in February that [...]
The great Gertrude Jekyll famously and rightly said: "The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make [...]