Garden Reviews

  • The 9/11 Memorial Park in New York reviewed by Sheppard Craige

    A poignant piece about a very particular site, sensitively ...

  • A Chelsea garden in Monmouthshire reviewed by Patterson Webster and Anne Wareham

    This is another re-issue, to remind me of a happy ...

  • A Keeper? – The National Botanic Garden of Wales reviewed by Tristan Gregory

    It's garden visiting time - come to Wales! You could ...

  • Aberglasney, a review by Anne Wareham

    I visited Aberglasney in September this year (2012) ...

  • Appeltern Gardens, Netherlands reviewed by Wanda Oprea

    Is there an inherent problem with show gardens? And ...

  • Art or Science? a review of Througham Court by Pat Webster

    I've never managed to get into Througham Court yet. ...

  • Award worthy? a review of Abbotsbury by Tristan Gregory

    Another review from the excellent writer, critic and ...

  • Berchigranges Garden reviewed by Noel Kingsbury

    Another garden review, and, as Noel says, also an ...

  • Bodnant Garden: a review by Tristan Gregory

    The last time two times I have visited Bodnant I have ...

  • Boughton House – Kim Wilkie’s Orpheus reviewed by James Alexander-Sinclair

    "Perfect, Impressive, Majestic and Splendid. It is ...

  • Chaumont 2012 reviewed by Anne Hanley

    We don't seem to have heard so much of the garden ...

  • Chiswick House and Gardens: a dog’s dinner or a curate’s egg?

    Barbara Taylor has recently discovered, Chiswick House ...

  • Coombe House reviewed by Darryl Moore

    Reflections on a visit to Plaz Metaxu (Coombe House) ...

  • Coton Manor Garden reviewed by Anne Wareham

    "...the finest garden in the East Midlands" - Good ...

  • Death careering round the trees – a review of Hidcote by Tristan Gregory

    "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, ...

  • East Rushton Old Vicarage reviewed by Sara Maitland and Anne Wareham

    "It was exhausting. But can a garden be too big? What ...

  • Fuller’s Mill – a review by Helen Seal

    Garden reviews at their best raise interesting questions ...

  • Fundacion Cesar Manrique – El Taro de Tahiche by Lesley Hegarty

    "..the front garden had the same palm trees, randomly ...

  • Gold at the Olympic Park by Bridget Rosewell

    Meadows now cover a multitude of sins - or at least, ...

  • Hadspen aka The Newt in Somerset, by Anne Wareham

    The garden is actually interestingly old fashioned. ...

  • Hidcote – a review by Barbara Taylor

    "So, what did I think? Initially I thought all the ...

  • Highgrove Garden reviewed by James Alexander-Sinclair

    A review of Highgrove by James Alexander-Sinclair ...

  • Lady Farm by Stephen Anderton and Anne Wareham

    "Perhaps the terraces are smaller than the house needs ...

  • Lawrence Halprin’s Heritage Plaza: A Crying Shame by Susan Cohan

    "Despite my swagger, I’m a softy. I well up in tears ...

  • Les Jardins d’Étretat by Charles Hawes

    " I am informed that the trampoline is modelled on ...

  • Little Sparta by Tim Richardson

    by Tim Richardson. "....we are reminded of Finlay’s ...

  • Mill Dene Garden reviewed by Darryl Moore

    Darryl Moore is a valued garden critic on thinkinGardens, ...

  • Plume Puzzle by Adam Hodge

    Jardin Plume is one of those gardens which not long ...

  • Poundbury comes to Hanham Court

    "Hanham Court gardens are our horticultural equivalent ...

  • Powis Castle: a review by Tristan Gregory

    Gardens are reopening, and it's garden reviews time ...

  • Review of Veddw House Garden by Robin White

    "If I were to give feedback about the garden...I would ...

  • Rousham reviewed by Tristan Gregory

    I have said before, in the introduction to Alison ...

  • Scampston: The Walled Garden reviewed by Charles Hawes

    "So what is the point of it? ... At just over 10 years ...

  • Sezincote – of elephants and water by Alison Levey

    The name Sezincote has acquired a kind of magic ...

  • Sudeley Castle, a review by Tristan Gregory

    If you are of a delicate disposition, look away now. ...

  • Sussex Prairies Garden Again – reviewed by Susan Wright

    I make no apology for a new and different perspective ...

  • Sussex Prairies Garden reviewed by Darryl Moore

    It may seem strange to have three reviews of one garden ...

  • Suzanne Albinson on Alnwick Gardens

    "....However, to earn the right to be called the most ...

  • The Battery Bosque: prairie as metaphor by James Golden

    "What better designer than Piet Oudolf, who works ...

  • The Best Garden I visited this year: : De Wiersse

    I did feel I had stepped behind the mirror, like Alice ...

  • The Best Garden I Visited this Year: Haseley Court

    I know you have all been desperately wondering what ...

  • The Best Garden I visited this year: results

    Whether the sculpture is to your taste isn’t really ...

  • The Best Garden I visited: Dixter x Two

    I have heard it said that you shouldn't meet your ...

  • The gardens of Manoir d’Eyrignac and Marqueyssac France, by Bridget Rosewell.

    Some pieces hang around a bit long (sorry everyone) ...

  • The High Line: more than the sum of its parts

    "But it wasn’t Piet Oudolf who got most of the early ...

  • The Laskett reviewed by Emma Bond

    "It is a shame that Sir Roy Strong is subjected to ...

  • They fell asleep.. a review of Kiftsgate by Anne Wareham

    I didn't intend to write a review. I was just having ...

  • This other Eden, demi-paradise? – a review by Noel Kingsbury

    Such a relief when someone says 'fantastic doesn't ...

  • Veddw reviewed by Bridget Rosewell

    Just to wind up Matthew Appleby, who is complaining ...

  • Well loved – or totally forgotten? Russell Page Exhibition reviewed by Francois Gordon

    Russell Page is being honoured at present by the Garden ...

  • Will they get it? A review of the Native Plant Garden at NYBG by Susan Cohan

    This is an interesting review of a garden - and, as ...

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