Judging an Award.
It's not easy to write about gardens or gardening this week. I have hardly ventured outside at all and my mind has been on managing the chaos of having new [...]
It's not easy to write about gardens or gardening this week. I have hardly ventured outside at all and my mind has been on managing the chaos of having new [...]
My father taught me that it is terribly important to do things properly. And his carpentry and work around our house exemplified this philosophy. This is my father, popping [...]
Do you visit art galleries and museums? Do you enjoy theatre and concerts? Hauser and Wirth - art gallery and Oudolf Gardens As a garden writer and garden [...]
I love my garden, I do. It’s at the heart of my life. But just recently I’ve been drawn back and back to a windowsill by some sweet dwarf pelargoniums. Here's [...]
Well, it's actually a hundred and twelve years ago. And, I confess, (surprise) not truly Garden Rant. It was British, and they called themselves The Guild of The Garden Lovers. [...]
Youth? Beauty? Passion? Honesty? A Big Grin? Many years ago I wrote a piece for Gardens Illustrated about a late season border. I may have already told you, but I [...]
This year I grew some Petchoa - a cross between Petunias and Calibrachoas. They sold themselves to me by the amazing virtues of not being sticky. Unlike petunias. And not needing [...]
I visited a garden recently which was quite pleasant and had been partly professionally designed. And I tried to work out why my terrible dissatisfaction crept in. You must forgive [...]
Charles rules the ex Veg Plot at the Veddw. (It hasn’t been a Veg Plot for over 15 years but the name is horribly stubborn) This is a follow on [...]
We'd all been missing the bees and butterflies, due to the cold and wet we'd had. Then a little heat and they're back! Bombing around, making up for lost time: [...]
I gather that people like lists. And it's true we have a perpetual 'garden list' at home. So I thought you might appreciate a list of the things we enjoyed [...]
I began my garden life reading Vita Sackville West and Christopher Lloyd. I named my first book in tribute to one of Lloyd's: The Well Tempered Garden. And early in [...]