I shudder every time I hear that phrase ‘put the garden to bed for winter’! Okay, so if you own a great pile and have to open your garden to raise funds to fix the hole in the roof I can [...]
Plant ornamental grass with perennial partners to create a magical effect. One partner compliments the other so well! The rise in popularity of gardening with ornamental grass shows no sign of [...]
How to get late summer colour in the garden? Here’s how you do it – Keeping the show going in August can be a challenge! The early summer flowering perennials and shrubs look tired [...]
Salvias for your Garden Salvias for your garden – I guess that most of us can remember when every garden and roundabout had bright postbox red Salvia as the obligatory part of that [...]
.Ground cover plants are such useful plants and can make for an easier life. A few years ago I visited a friend’s garden that was open in aid of charity. This was a very big garden full of lovely [...]
Heavenly hellebores filled my old garden. Unfortunately I had to leave most of them behind when I moved. I was able to rescue a few of the most interesting ones and get them established in large [...]
Late Flowering Garden Perennials Whether it’s because of drought, summer heat, heavy rain or just bad planning, it can be a challenge to keep gardens looking colourful into the autumn! In a [...]
Autumn Planting is best but why have we got out of the habit? When I left college and started my first job, it was common practice to plant your garden in the autumn. Now we seem to wait for the [...]
Hellebore trends are making a lot of people sit up and notice! We are witnessing a remarkable time in the life of garden hellebores! Perhaps it was like this when the hybridizing of roses began? [...]
Foggy Bottom Garden adjoins the Dell Garden at Bressingham Gardens- a garden that I’ve recently written about. Whilst the Dell Garden is a mecca for hardy herbaceous perennial plant enthusiasts, [...]