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.
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
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
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...
How can sense of place help optimise the garden visitor experience? by Janna Schreier
Well, if you wondered how Janna got on with your responses to the questionnaire last year, here you are. It’s not easy. In fact, it’s a challenge worthy of thinking gardeners. I know you’ll be up to it. Janna was – congratulations, Janna, from...
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
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 – 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
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 ...
Getting youngsters into horticulture: why bother? by Rachel the Gardener
Our regular readers will observe that we have a new advert in the sidebar. I had practically given up on adverts as worthless clutter, apart from our trademark and faithful Everedge. But this is good stuff by another reputable company. If you want to learn how to...
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
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
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...
Recent Posts from: Veddw
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. […]
Snowdrop mania is coming…
In the UK, right now, the horticultural world is about to drive us all mad with snowdrops. Pictures of. Articles about. Gardens with them. Anything people can think of to bash us over the head with snowdrops.
Brilliant Brecon
Recently we made a visit to Brecon. This is not far from us, in case anyone was getting over excited about the possibility that I might have been travelling again. It’s in Wales, in the Brecon Beacons, recently re-christened Bannau Brycheiniog.
You should have been here Next Year
Charles made a complaint recently when we were walking in the garden.
When I complained about him complaining he told me that it was good for me to have complaints about the planting.
