Small gardens, anyone? Book Review by Susan Wright
Is this the book everyone wants? Small gardens? Anne Wareham, editor. New Small Garden reviewed by Susan Wright New Small Garden is Noel Kingsbury’s latest book. It’s a comprehensive guide to the “principles, planting and practice” of small...
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 could I not be happy for Tristan? Or sorry for us? So this may be one of fewer Tristan Gregory contributions. One thing...
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 Gardeners: The Enemy Within, by Rachel Cassidy: At this very moment, in a thousand gardens up and down the country,...
Are Gardens Art? review by Helen Gazeley
The promised review of the Royal Horticultural Event at Wisley. Thanks to Helen Gazeley for the review, Suzanne Moss for organising the event and Charles Hawes for the photographs. And here is a recording of the entire proceedings. (warning- it’s over an hour...Wisley: a garden debate at Wisley
Are gardens art? – the debate 28th of June from 1.00pm until we shut up. Anne Wareham (you’ve heard of her…), Dr. Noel Kingsbury, Kathryn Aalto and Professor David Cooper lead the debate, which is chaired by Andrew Wilson. Details here Any...
Not just a load of old coneflowers by Victoria Summerley.
Another fine book review from Victoria Summerley. Thank you, Victoria! Anne Wareham, editor A review of ‘Planting, a new perspective’, by Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf by Victoria Summerley: First, I must apologise to Anne Wareham,. who asked me to reviw...
Gardening in the Wilderness: do we need a revolution in the garden? by Lucy Masters
Suppers are back! Well – one is, thanks to the effort and initiative of Lucy Masters, who wrote this piece to introduce the debate. And Chris Young, editor of RHS The Garden, who will be chairing it for us! Thanks Chris. This time we will not only have the...A horticultural conflict
I can’t offer you anything but links for this, but they are links worth following. The background is the publication of Noel Kingsbury and Piet Oudolf’s new book ‘Planting, a new perspective’. The first link is the usual paean of praise for...
Good Garden Books
This page is for some of the very best books about gardens. Ones which are likely to appeal to thinkingardens readers. They are not necessarily new but should be available somewhere in the great world web. I welcome thinkinGardens reader’s recommendations...
Chelsea 2012 by Anne Wareham
I did my usual for Chelsea – asked people I met on Press Day a question I thought would be of interest to thinkingardeners. Less celebrities this time. All pictures by Charles Hawes, but the unnamed person in them, while bearing a passing resemblance to me, is...Goodbye and thank you to the RHS, by Anne Wareham
Just before Christmas I received notice that the RHS would be withdrawing funding for thinkingardens, as they can no longer afford to support it. In January I wrote to Sue Biggs (RHS Director-General) and Elizabeth Banks, (President of the RHS) as follows: In 2005...Contributors
“I am not scared of vegetables, apart from celeriac.” Zoe Williams, Guardian Blog Contributors to thinkinGardens Preview articles by author using the links below. A Suzanne Albinson, James Alexander-Sinclair, Stephen Anderton, Matthew Appleby,...Pothole Gardens by Felicity Waters
“…the photos below show the best form of roadscaping that I have ever seen in the UK….”
Recent Posts from: Veddw
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.
Garden Seats – to make and sit on.
I am discovering more and more often that it is important to have a great many seats in the garden. In fact there should probably be one every three feet or so.
