Colour! by Nigel Dunnett.
Ever since the Popes (remember them? Hadspen?) foretold in 1999 that colour would be the big thing in the new century, colour has been perhaps the…
How do you like your edges? by Thomas Stone
I have a permanent argument with at least one good friend about edging. I like to see plants creating their own edge, merging happily with the grass…
Messing about in Boats by Cherie Lebbon
“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always…
Peer review by Bunny Guinness
Bunny Guinness recently wrote this piece for the Telegraph and it was published in the newspaper. It has not yet appeared online though, so I asked…
The Monster Outside by Valerie Lapthorne
I know this feeling very well, and I think we will not be on our own. Mind you – there are easier ways to garden than this! Anne Wareham, editor…
Do we need Garden Experts? by Anne Wareham
I know – you waited all this time for a new piece and now it’s just me. Still: is it time we changed our perspective on ‘Garden Experts’? What do…
I’m not renewing my RHS Membership by Julieanne Porter
Having just been exposed to the expensive bonanza which is Chelsea, it seemed appropriate to look at the issue of garden costs again. This time the…
Well loved – or totally forgotten? Russell Page Exhibition reviewed by Francois Gordon
Russell Page is being honoured at present by the Garden Museum in London. To publicise the exhibition, Christopher Woodward, the director of the…
The Cost of a Garden by Tristan Gregory
I have to report, with mixed feelings, that the demands of happy domestic life have taken over one of our best and most prolific contributors. How…
Pleasance in Suburbia by Genny Twigg
We’ve all read something like it…. Anne Wareham, editor Pleasance in Suburbia, by Genny Twigg In brief Name: 102, 1956 semi-detached bungalow…
Volunteer Gardeners: The Enemy Within, by Rachel Cassidy
Are you a garden volunteer? Or a professional gardener? An employer of either? You may find this piece interesting. Anne Wareham, editor Volunteer…
I like the grasses: fun at a Gallery.
Yesterday Charles and I paid a visit to the new gallery, Hauser and Wirth, in Somerset. You’ll be hearing much about this place as Piet Oudolf has…
Does employing a garden designer lose you your garden? by Michael McCoy
Perhaps it’s not easy to feel that your garden is really your own when you have had a garden designer working on it? Do you feel free to amend the…
Doing the Art by Holly Allen
What is it like to create a garden as a work of art? Holly Allen discusses that in this piece, which is an interesting follow up to last week’s…
Community Gardens: do we care?
I am very busy just now, so instead of the usual post I am inviting a discussion by means of two links about community gardens. Do we really care…
