An Economic History of the English Garden by Roderick Floud, reviewed by Bridget Rosewell.
Floud sets out the history of the garden industry. He is interested in the how and the who, and how much it all cost.
New Perennials and Structure, Facebook Discussion 2.
It’s based on values like sustainability, low maintenance, beauty, natural abstractions, habitat based, multi season performance, natural looking plants.
New Perennials and Structure
I find myself wondering if one of the things which distinguishes the New Perennial gardens from – err – others, is a lack of structures?
Afterwards by Anne Wareham
I wonder what will happen to our home and garden after we’re dead?
Garden Opening : we think.
People’s thoughts, motivations and experiences in relation to opening their gardens
Philosophy in the Garden by Damon Young, reviewed by John Clarke
Anne Wareham, editor It’s that time again: thank you once more to our sponsor, Everedge (who make cool steel planters as well as edging) for another year of thinkingardens. And in entirely other news, thanks to Professor John Clarke for this review of Philosophy...
Representation of gardens and landscape by Caleb Melchior
Anne Wareham, editor Here’s a topic which has preoccupied our household for many years. And which I think about every time I visit Instagram. An essential topic then, addressed superbly by Caleb. We had one difficulty – ‘garden’ or...
Les Jardins d’Étretat by Charles Hawes
” I am informed that the trampoline is modelled on the boudoir of Marie-Antoinette, (really? That must have been some strange room).”
An interview with Hans von Trotha by Anke Schmitz
I was wondering who would be the ideal person to interview. Then I heard a podcast on garden art by the publicist, Hans von Trotha. Just perfect.
Personal or Commercial Garden? by Anne Wareham
What I’m wondering is, do you, as a thinkingardener, tend to visit a particular type of garden? And what is it, if you do?
Closing Time: Goodbye to Hummelo by Tony Spencer
The private garden of Piet and Anja Oudolf at Hummelo has closed to the public.
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: : De Wiersse
I did feel I had stepped behind the mirror, like Alice (although I did not meet the Mad Hatter …)
The Best Garden I Visited this Year: Haseley Court
I know you have all been desperately wondering what on earth happened to the Best Garden reviews. ‘Before Christmas’, I said. Hm – well Christmas was its own pressure and was then closely followed by a horrible chest infection which has kept me...
Recent Posts from: Veddw
Making Veddw Garden: part 2: we arrive.
. I really had no idea what you had in mind, either. I think if I had, I’d have been freaked out. I don’t actually think you ever said “one day all this will be a garden”. I’d have thought you deranged.
Making Veddw Garden – a Love Story: part 1.
And out of what felt to be the ruins of my life, I turned to an ambition to make another garden.
Ambivalence about Snowdrops
Well, I’m sorry, but I didn’t have a happy Christmas. We were both full of cough and were quite unwell. I have not recovered, and I find myself quite unable to write anything new. So I dipped into The Bad Tempered Gardener to offer you a piece on those plants which gardeners obsess about at this time […]
I’ve fallen in love with these.
I love my garden, I do. It’s at the heart of my life. But just recently I’ve been drawn back and back to a windowsill with some sweet dwarf pelargoniums.
Favour the Ferns
Many years ago The Financial Times sent me to do a feature on the RHS ‘Flower Show’ at Tatton Park . I was totally naïve and had no idea what I was supposed to do or to write about. So my excitement was tempered by acute anxiety. The term ‘imposter syndrome’ could have been invented for me. […]
