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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
Can a walk be a garden? The High Line revisited by Bridget Rosewell.
We’re back, troublesome as ever. Has anyone else bar Bridget found the High Line less than perfect? Count on thinkingardens for a different view……
‘There is a place for jokes, and a place for not-jokes’ – Ambra Edwards meets Ian Hamilton Finlay
This is the first of a series of repeated and rejuvenated early articles from thinkingardens. I’ve been aware for some time that there are excellent…
Designers Damned by Lou Nicholls
I know that garden designers, gardeners and garden makers read and contribute to thinkingardens, so here’s a cat to set amongst you pigeons. Does it…
