The Native Butterfly Garden at Hampton Court is a meshed enclosure containing many of our native but...
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This is just a brief whizz through some of the gardens at Hampton Court that caught my eye. It is fa...
1st July 2015 • Read More »This is just a brief whizz through some of the gardens at Hampton Court that caught my eye. It is fa...
1st July 2015 • Read More »Illustrating the Jordan’s philosophy of growing their cereals in an environment that embraces wil...
13th July 2014 • Read More »Chew Valley Trees garden transported me back to my recent visit to Sweden (about which I will blog ...
12th July 2014 • Read More »Vestra Wealth’s garden was full of great detailing - combined with some of the best planting in t...
12th July 2014 • Read More »Alexandra Froggatt may be self-taught and is still very young, but that didn’t stop her winning ...
11th July 2014 • Read More »Another worthy Gold Medal (and Best Summer Garden) winner was A Space to Connect & Grow designed by...
11th July 2014 • Read More »In October I’m off to Australia for my first visit - with the Melbourne Botanic Garden as one of ...
10th July 2014 • Read More »Delicately beautiful woodland planting designed by garden photographer David Sarton in his first sh...
14th July 2013 • Read More »If you have a horticultural problem or query, a flower show is an ideal place to find out what you ...
13th July 2013 • Read More »The Native Butterfly Garden at Hampton Court is a meshed enclosure containing many of our native but...
12th July 2013 • Read More »So averse am I to much mainstream floristry (I prefer naturalistic arrangements) that I generally ...
11th July 2013 • Read More »Here's some of the Best Small Gardens at the Hampton Court Flower Show 2012. ...
7th July 2012 • Read More »A new innovation at this year’s RHS Show is the inclusion of gardens that have been created for ...
6th July 2012 • Read More »The conceptual gardens at the Hampton Court Flower Show are always a mixed bag – the best are cha...
6th July 2012 • Read More »I found the big show gardens a big disappointment. It’s telling that I took very few photographs o...
5th July 2012 • Read More »I’m rather hoping that Mrs Stapleton might come and live in my garden. I spotted her on the Fibr...
5th July 2012 • Read More »I always make a beeline for Garden Brocante with its wonderful collection of vintage garden tools, c...
4th July 2012 • Read More »Lucy’s Smith’s exquisite stoneware Kingfisher Pool stopped me in my tracks. Look closely and ...
4th July 2012 • Read More »Chris Beardshaw is one of our most socially responsible garden designers, but I was struck by the...
3rd July 2012 • Read More »I’m not a great fan of sculpture in the garden (unless it’s very old and beautiful or a Henry ...
14th July 2011 • Read More »One of the strongest themes at the show was of gardens that looked more like fragments of coun...
13th July 2011 • Read More »There was a world of plant temptations at the show, most of which I managed to resist on the bas...
12th July 2011 • Read More »I’m gradually becoming more disciplined about resisting the temptation to buy plants that requir...
11th July 2011 • Read More »Shepherd’s Hut makers, Court & Hunt have decided to branch out from the practicality of ...
11th July 2011 • Read More »The Deptford Project’s Small Garden was about raising the profile of community based food projec...
10th July 2011 • Read More »#rhshamptonLaser-cut galvanised panel There’s a lot going on with garden walls these days, both ho...
10th July 2011 • Read More »#rhshampton Tucked away in the Grow Your Own marquee was a glorious garlic garden (@thegarlicfarm...
9th July 2011 • Read More »The Small Gardens are always a good source of garden design ideas because the scale is often more ...
9th July 2011 • Read More »Initially I thought this was one of the Conceptual Gardens that had slipped its moorings and ended...
8th July 2011 • Read More »What a joy to see two gardens that used a vibrant and intense palette of colours. It’s not tha...
8th July 2011 • Read More »The slate slab with its three waterspouts was clean-lined and a perfect water fe...
7th July 2011 • Read More »The reflecting ball in the ‘Excuse me while I Kiss the Sky’ conceptual garden was simple and...
7th July 2011 • Read More »I’ve given myself 24 hours to digest what I saw at the Hampton Court Flower Show (#rhshampton) a...
6th July 2011 • Read More »Various Brownie Packs created gardens in containers – I thought the Guernsey Brownies entry wa...
17th July 2010 • Read More »I really loved the display by Edulis in the Growing Tastes marquee. It featured all sorts of unus...
16th July 2010 • Read More »My least favourite style of planting is what I refer to as ‘fruit salad’ where plants are jumb...
15th July 2010 • Read More »This is my very subjective review of some of the show gardens. I didn’t photograph them all –...
14th July 2010 • Read More »These gardens are interpretations of aspects of the environment and biodiversity. There wasn’t...
13th July 2010 • Read More »The ‘Home Grown Feature’ was where agriculture met horticulture. The ‘Fields of Gold’ had ...
12th July 2010 • Read More »I like these gardens – they make you think and react – they are not something you would ever wan...
11th July 2010 • Read More »The scale of these gardens means that they are an excellent source of inspiration for our own gard...
9th July 2010 • Read More »Off to the year’s third major RHS Flower Show yesterday and walked myself to a standstill. Des...
8th July 2010 • Read More »As ever, Jekka McVicar’s display showed herbs at their very best - and all organic too from www.je...
21st July 2009 • Read More »Other things that caught my eye? Well I had planned to buy an old dolly tub to use as a water contai...
20th July 2009 • Read More »The other side of the Long Water, the gold medal for Best Small Garden was awarded to ‘Pepa’s Ka...
18th July 2009 • Read More »What is it about the RHS shows that attracts extreme weather? Over the years I’ve been drenched, f...
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