Actual garden design, what passes for garden design, what’s being argued about garden design, and of course, garden designers.
We are plagued by garden designers in the UK. They are everywhere, telling us what to do and how to do it, and what plants to buy. Especially what plants [...]
I passed a gentleman sat with his wife. “There's not much colour” he remarked to her. I looked up, I looked one way and the other, I looked down. Colour [...]
In my recent post covering Henry Mitchell's advice about lawns and alternatives thereto, I promised to next share his ideas on designing gardens for lower maintenance, also from The Essential [...]
Garden visiting is one of the most important things a gardener can do. Getting out of our gardens to see what other people are up to is not an indulgence, [...]
Those who know me, know I don’t travel. And those who know me, know that there are very few gardens in Britain which I admire. But here is a garden [...]
A lawnless garden somewhere in DC. Finding myself with nothing handy to read at the pool, I picked up my extremely marked-up copy of Henry Mitchell's The Essential [...]
Being Helpful The Handsome Helper made a complaint recently when we were walking in the garden. When I complained about him complaining he told me that it was [...]
It's everywhere. Various Chelsea Flower Show gardens this year included the newly fashionable weeds. Interestingly, I saw someone quoted as saying that that was ok because ‘it was [...]
Living in the DC area, it's been fun to blog about the White House gardens, a topic that now has its own category. I've included other presidential gardens, like the [...]
A posey of pinks with a ruff of hosta leaves. I’m pretty sure I began gardening so that I could pick flowers with impunity. Walking to school in [...]
And right then, before I can forget, I find my calendar app, scroll to some random date in August, and type, "Order more daffs."
A portrait of John Sales by Charles Hawes. I have just heard that John Sales died in December. This is very sad news to me, but may mean [...]
