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• A Roman Holiday – for Gardeners

  

  22nd May 2017 * Places to Visit * Stephanie DonaldsonThe advantage of returning to Rome for a second time is that we had ticked off all the main sights during... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Choosing Next Year’s Tulips

  

  5th May 2017 * General * Daniel CarruthersYes, I know that we are still enjoying this year's show, but now is the time to make a note/take a photo of what has... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• The Illusion of Control

  

  10th March 2017 * In The Garden * Daniel CarruthersI was talking to a fellow gardener and we were agreeing that this is a wonderful time in the garden - spring... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• The Garden Press Event

  

  23rd February 2017 * Stephanie's Blog * Stephanie DonaldsonThe Garden Press Event takes place in February - it's when we garden writers get a chance to have a... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Brilliant News from The Walled Nursery at Hawkhurst

  

  16th February 2017 * Stephanie's Blog * Stephanie DonaldsonI'm a regular and enthusiastic visitor to this lovely nursery and I have watched progress with... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Kendra Wilson’s New Book

  

  Finally a modern approach to garden design in this practical book ‘My Garden is a Car Park and other design dilemmas’ by Kendra Wilson. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Hellebore Hygiene

  

  January is when I gradually work my way round the garden, cutting away the old hellebore leaves, carefully raking away the leaf litter to reveal the new... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Going, Going, Gone

  

  The yellow-flowered Brugmansia in the courtyard was still in flower over Christmas and it wasn’t until January 5ththat the flowers finally succumbed to our firs... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• National Wildflower Centre to Close

  

  Landlife is an organisation that has been promoting the use of wildflowers to enhance urban environments sine 1999. It has been an important trailblazer in... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Singapore Stopover

  

  On our way back from New Zealand we spent a couple of nights in Singapore – for the second time in three years. It was the hot and humid rainy season (34°... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• Mount Cook

  

  We had been admiring the snow clad Southern Alps for some days as we travelled around and were greatly looking forward to the literal and metaphorical high poin... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2017 GARDENING, HOME

• A Hobbit’s Garden

  

  I suppose that given that we were not far from Middle Earth – or so the map indicated – I shouldn’t have been surprised to happen upon a garden that gave every... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Lupin Land

  

  As someone who has always struggled to keep lupins alive, what with woolly aphids, rot – and plants that seem to lose the will to live beyond their first... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Land of the Long White Cloud

  

  Botanically, New Zealand is an extraordinary country. Because it drifted off from the rest of the world so early on, its natural flora is very limited and with... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Billowing Cloud of Star Jasmine

  

  Star Jasmine grows quite well in sheltered areas of the UK, but it wasn’t until I saw this magnificent cloud of flowers enveloping a tree trunk and ascending... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• The New Zealand Christmas Tree

  

  The last time I saw this glorious tree was at Logan Botanic Garden where it flowers in August. Here it is just coming into flower and will be at its peak by... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Ancient Rome in California

  

  Enroute to New Zealand, we spent a couple of night in Los Angeles and managed to visit the Getty Villa in Malibu – an extraordinary confection filled with... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Lighting the Way

  

  The silver-leaved tree fern is New Zealand’s national plant. The undersides of the leaves really glow in low light and in the past they were used by Maoris to... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Mockery of Figs

  

  That’s a new collective noun invented by me to refer to our tree that is now laden with fruit that will never ripen. It has spent the past 20 years bearing a... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Aftermath of Storm Angus

  

  It has been a long and lovely autumn with some of the best autumn colour I have seen in many years. The day before Storm Angus arrived was glorious, crisp,... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 GARDENING, HOME