The Best Garden I visited: Dixter x Two

The Best Garden I visited: Dixter x Two

I have heard it said that you shouldn’t meet your idols and while this doesn’t strictly apply to famous gardens, our visit to Great Dixter hadn’t been at all what I had thought it would be.

Do you dare? by Anne Wareham

Do you dare? by Anne Wareham

Here is a tale for those new and inexperienced in the garden world. Someone making a garden and hoping for recognition, maybe someone wanting to write about gardens and to move beyond their blog. In other words, someone who is hoping to make a name for themselves in...
How many is enough? Or too many?…by Katherine Crouch

How many is enough? Or too many?…by Katherine Crouch

You will all note with horror just how long ago it was that I received this piece. Takes a leap of the imagination, back to March perhaps. Thinking gardeners will have no problem with that. (I’ve been busy) So what do you think? How many repeat plants do you...
What does ‘wild’ actually mean? by Debbie Wilson

What does ‘wild’ actually mean? by Debbie Wilson

Ah, who’d be fashionable? Or classy? Someone else with a new garden which has prompted reflections. Anne Wareham, editor           Away From It All by Debbie Wilson Having only ever had back gardens, I suddenly found myself with six...
The Mad Enterprise of Starting a New Garden by Bridget Hannigan

The Mad Enterprise of Starting a New Garden by Bridget Hannigan

Just over 30 years ago I started making the garden at Veddw with not much else than a spade and a desperate need to have a garden. There was no internet, we knew no-one, and had very little money. But we had a rather depressing house and two acres of field. The...
Do me a big favour? by Anne Wareham

Do me a big favour? by Anne Wareham

Do me a big favour – share this with someone who finds gardens totally boring  Anne Wareham, editor   I recently published a piece here, by Tim Ingram, asking what the purpose of a garden is. Tim basically said a garden is for botanical interest, for...
What is the Purpose of a Garden? by Tim Ingram

What is the Purpose of a Garden? by Tim Ingram

We have frequently discussed whether gardens could be art. This piece by Tim Ingram presents a totally different vision of what a garden may be. Are these ideas of gardens contradictory? Mutually exclusive? Or do both miss the point? Anne Wareham, editor   ...
What style? by Kate Cox

What style? by Kate Cox

If you’re a garden designer, do you design gardens based on what you love? On what originally inspired you to become a designer? On your own garden? On major public gardens? Or what the client wants? I hope Kate won’t mind me saying that she struggled with...
Posh Day Out for Katherine Crouch

Posh Day Out for Katherine Crouch

Although this took place quite some time ago, it seems to me that many thinkingardens readers will find interest in what goes on at this prestigious annual event. And others will simply find it very entertaining. With thanks to our willing victim, Katherine Crouch....
The Ultimate Visitor Experience by Janna Schreier

The Ultimate Visitor Experience by Janna Schreier

This is the question that a great many of us would like to make sense of, and here is someone actually seriously researching it for us – with your assistance, I hope.  It would be great if you would answer the survey and help add to our understanding of our...
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