Tag Archives: garden
Single But Not Ready to Mingle: Solitary Wasps
Time to water some plants in “herbaceous perennials”. I start by unwinding a long hose from its wall-mounted reel. Turning the tap full...
Managing gardens for drought and flooding
This July was the driest for 190 years – as far back as records go – and August isn’t looking promising either. Yet last wint...
The Night Patrol: Bats, Toads and Hedgehogs
There’s an awful lot going on in gardens while we’re inside tucked up in bed. With humans safely out of the way, other creatu...
Achillea: from battlefield to garden via a hearty brew
One afternoon last week I spent a contented few minutes watching a small, iridescent green insect blissfully nosing its way around a fl...
A Journey Through Borde Hill Garden
Set in 383 acres of parkland in the green and rolling High Weald of Sussex, Borde Hill is a plant lovers’ paradise, home to a...
Garden Gnomes; RHS Chelsea Flower Show Bound.
The gnomes of England have had enough. Downing tools, they are on strike. Bags packed, scarlet caps donned, they have left their suburb...
Cercis; redbuds and Judas trees
Many of my early memories are to do with plants and gardens. What do I remember? I recall being taken to Kew Gardens in April to see th...
Forsythia: Nice to see you, to see you, nice!
The double seat in front: just out of reach. As the eighty-five bus lurches away from Putney Bridge station I glare at the back of the ...
Snake’s head fritillaries
The nodding, bell-like flowers of snake’s head fritillaries were once widespread in England, seen growing in their thousands in the wil...
The Marvel of Moss
Frequently found caressing tree trunks, roots and rocks in woodlands are soft, green carpets of tiny structures shaped like stars, feat...
Bugle Blast
As I write this, I am looking out of the back doors of the garden centre, on a wet and chilly November morning, across plant tables dra...
Something borrowed, something blue
Something borrowed, something blue
What are your early gardening memories? One of my formative horticultural recollections...
