Half of the fun of gardening is the anticipation. This feeling was even more heightened because I had never been in charge of a meadow project before. What flowers will appear first? Will the colours work? Will it look full and bountiful or a bit weedy? Will anything actually come… Read More »Moving Meadows ~ the really fun bit

We made a wildflower meadow! We didn’t mean to. It was the side effect of a longer term garden management plan but it has turned out to be The Very Best Garden Project of 2023. It is November now and the meadow is no more, so it is the perfect… Read More »Moving Meadows ~ Making the most of a garden in flux

Despite all of my best efforts, it appears that I am now a grown-up adult gardener. This perplexing development has been brewing for a while (I mean, I am approaching my mid-forties and my children are both now taller than me, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise… and yet… Read More »Grown up gardening

During a couple of recent conversations, I have described the way I work today as a “horticultural hustle”. I have looked up the word ‘hustle’ to check that I am using it in the correct way and I would like to assure people that I don’t mean it in the… Read More »My talks and ‘The Great Horticultural Hustle’

The English summer of 2022 was a tricky one for every gardener. Extremely high temperatures made it almost impossible to be outside, let alone tending to our wilting, scorching gardens. This summer my garden had to fend for itself almost entirely and it did rather well. Not only did all… Read More »Gardens playing a supportive role

We all know that our National Health Service is severely stretched. Like many others last year, my family had to wait for life saving treatment to kick in when, in ideal circumstances, that treatment would have started right away. So while I waited I bought text books, sought advice through… Read More »Perennial ~ practical help for horticulturalists