Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
I've reached that time in my life. Police officers look remarkably young these days, and who are these new modern pop stars people keep talking about? In a world of [...]
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 [...]
Wrapping up their three-part email discussion -- annotated here with links and photographs -- Anne & Marianne move away from garden design and differences in technique to the rapidly changing [...]
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 [...]
I've spent the last couple of days visiting gardens. Five gardens in two days is quite impressive, but not quite my record. My record was six. Three of these gardens [...]
Brown plants, orange flowers, and hot pink in the Edwards Forkner garden. Playing with color in the landscape is my favorite way to garden. I call myself a [...]
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 [...]
The line between genius and madness can be incredibly fine. Much depends on a successful outcome. When Rowena Cade started building her outdoor theatre, The Minack, on an exposed cliff [...]
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 [...]
I own rather too many gardening books. In excess of 800 to be precise. Most are books about plants and practical gardening, although I have a healthy number of books [...]
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 [...]
