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• Chelsea 2015: The Great Pavilion

  

  And to cap off our coverage for this year's Chelsea Flower Show, we give you a few scenes we've captured inside the Great Pavilion - where plants take centre... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Chelsea 2015: The Artisan Gardens

  

  Small, very small even compared to the main show gardens but they can still certainly pack a punch! Size doesn't matter when it comes to creativity. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Chelsea 2015: The Fresh Gardens

  

  Gardens that are conceptual and meant to provoke thought. Gardens that are meant to be looked out and then to ponder upon. But are these gardens fresh as a... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Chelsea 2015: The Show Gardens

  

  For most visitors the main highlight of attending the Chelsea Flower Shower is to see the exquisite large show gardens on display and this year's selection did... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Chelsea 2015, a Preview

  

  The 2015 RHS Chelsea flower show opens tomorrow, but today ahead of the crowds, Mark and I had a preview of the gardens on show. Our first impression was that... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Beyond Leaves and Flowers

  

  When one thinks about beautiful parts of a plant immediate thoughts tend to go towards the blooms, then a close second are its leaves (inverse if you're a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• My Favourite Shed

  

  Not that we have many, we only have two. Okay only one proper shed, you know the sort that is a wooden structure that is utilitarian and where you keep your... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• A Flush Here and A Flush There

  

  Spring is such an exciting time of the year when there's so much growth and activity going on in the garden that one is spoilt for choice on what to highlight. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Beeches Nursery Day!

  

  Last Saturday the urge to visit a plant nursery was very strong but somehow it still felt too early in the season to see the best of what most nurseries have... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Fresh!

  

  One of the things I love at this time of the year is seeing all the new growth all over the garden. The new flush of growth, almost of them just looks so... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Cringe Task

  

  Do you have any looming tasks in the garden that you are not looking forward to doing? A task that makes you shudder or cringe? We do, one in particular.... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Reach Out and Touch

  

  I especially love seeing Scheffleras flush out new leaves, like a bunch of hands and arms reaching out, trying to touch the sky... Okay, okay, it's not a... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Plants in the Blue Pots Update

  

  Funny how a post, like this one can have several working titles. The first one was 'Front of House Plants Update' but it was the exact title we used we we... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Upright Again

  

  The Yucca desmettiana that lives on the grey sandstone pot on the pillar by the entrance to the koi pond section has been living upside down for months, since... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Ephemeral Beauty

  

  We grow Sanguinaria canadensis f. multiplex 'Plena' for it's relatively large and uniquely shaped foliage. But for a moment in the spring you get treated to... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Colour Above and Colour Below

  

  Some plants are equally beautiful from above and from below... Like Rhododendron 'Wine and Roses' for example. This was first sold a few years ago in large... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Favourite View

  

  My current favourite view and part of the garden is also the most difficult to photograph. Why? It is a narrow space and it's not easy to find a spot to... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Hop and Skip to a Pond Makeover

  

  Saturday morning is usually a recovery period from the working week that's just gone past, a period when it's not always easy to make a decision on anything... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Surprise Hit

  

  Whenever we highlight certain plants in our blog it's not always easy to predict what response they will elicit. Some will be hits while others will get a... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING

• Garden Blogger's Bloom Day April 2015

  

  As a mainly foliage garden we never really have any moment wherein the garden has exuberant floriferous displays. And when I took photos the other days I... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, GARDENING