From the Veddw blog

From the Veddw blog

I know this will be greeted with the same incredulity that opening a garden without serving tea and cake does.

The best garden I visited this year: a competition.

The best garden I visited this year: a competition.

A small competition everyone – be a star and write me a piece about the best garden you’ve visited this year. Remember – this is thinkingardens. I don’t want any ‘lovelies’ or long winded description and tour of a garden. I want to...
Having a Break

Having a Break

Hi everyone. I bet you’re all upset and worried because you haven’t seen a thinkingardens post for a while. “What will we think about?” I hear you cry. We’re all daft like this, us bloggers – think the world will fall apart if we...
Now We are Ten! by Anne Wareham

Now We are Ten! by Anne Wareham

2015 appears to be a big year in our house. Charles turns old and we’ll also have our Silver Wedding anniversary this June, he tells me. I’m not altogether sure I believe that. We had a big celebration: party, fireworks, speech and all that – to...

Wisley: a garden debate at Wisley

Are gardens art? – the debate    28th of June from 1.00pm until we shut up. Anne Wareham (you’ve heard of her…), Dr. Noel Kingsbury, Kathryn Aalto and Professor David Cooper lead the debate, which is chaired by Andrew Wilson. Details here  Any...
Apologies (especially to subscribers)

Apologies (especially to subscribers)

Dear Thinkingardens readers, We’ve been having some site problems lately. This may mean you’ll get, or have had, re-issued posts or been offered links which don’t work. Our brilliant and dedicated web master is trying everything he can to sort it, so...
Criticism of criticism by Anne Wareham

Criticism of criticism by Anne Wareham

“Your descriptions of Seats & Gardens . . . are often imperfect, frequently flippant, & sometimes false…….Be advised therefore from a friend to your Fame, as well as your Peace of mind; and do not print any thing that will either hurt or...

The next thinkingardens supper – last call

I’m sorry – this is of no interest to anyone who lives miles from London and doesn’t come to Chelsea. Or indeed, maybe, who doesn’t come to Chelsea Press Day. But those who do, might like to come to our next thinkingardens supper…Details...
Thinkingardens supper, February 2014

Thinkingardens supper, February 2014

Just a short note to thank everyone who braved the tube strike and the pouring rain to come to the thinkingardens supper: what a turn out! And special thank you’s to Lucy Masters, who did all the hard work and organisation brilliantly, and to Chris Young for...
A little self promotion..

A little self promotion..

I hope you’ll excuse this, but I wanted to remind everyone who may be interested that the garden at Veddw is open now. (and it may not be as far away as you think….it’s not deepest Wales…) And – to tell anyone who may not have registered,...
Chelsea 2013, some thoughts from Anne Wareham

Chelsea 2013, some thoughts from Anne Wareham

This year was marked for me by having one garden that shocked me by its badness, and one that delighted me. And the other remarkable thing was the extent of agreement about both those things amongst the people I talked to. Prize for shock went to Jinny Blom’s...
Chelsea – what do you think?

Chelsea – what do you think?

There’s a prize in this – but time’s up now!!! (I have sent the entries off to our impartial judge – I thought that knowing some of the entrants was not a good thing. Result will be declared on the 8th June! Watch this space….) I get very...

A horticultural conflict

I can’t offer you anything but links for this, but they are links worth following. The background is the publication of Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf’s new book ‘Planting, a new perspective’. The first link is the usual paean of praise for...
Read the Comments..

Read the Comments..

You may well have read Matthew Appleby’s piece on celebrity columnists . I am drawing it to your attention again because it took on a life of its own after publication, creating massive discussion on LinkedIn, for example, and a great many comments on here. So...
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