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  • Pick of the Plants

    Pick Plants

    Two of my favourite plants were definitely in the subtle palette. Andy Sturgeon’s M&G Garden had a gorgeous aquilegia tucked into the front of the... Read more

    Posted on 23 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Spread the Message About World Vision

    Spread Message About World Vision

    Before and after Last week The World Vision Garden at #rhschelsea took shape to mesmerising effect. The garden’s central ripple pool is what’s stopping people i... Read more

    Posted on 23 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Colour at Chelsea

    Colour Chelsea

    It was all very lovely at Chelsea –subtle colours softly intermingled with one another in pleasing combinations. It has to be said that the odd splash of vivid... Read more

    Posted on 22 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Best in Show – Chelsea 2012

    Best Show Chelsea 2012

    @clevewest has done it again winning best in show at the 2012 Chelsea Flower Show. Read more

    Posted on 22 May 2012 GARDENING
  • The Chelsea Flower Show

    Chelsea Flower Show

    #rhschelsea – The 2012 Chelsea Flower Show is finally upon us and I’m hard at work preparing my report for you. Watch this space. Read more

    Posted on 22 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Gardening Against the Odds

    Gardening Against Odds

    Set up in memory of the much-missed gardener and garden writer Elspeth Thompson, the Gardening Against the Odds Awards – organised by The Conservation Foundatio... Read more

    Posted on 21 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Plant Belles

    Plant Belles

    I’m kicking myself that I didn’t buy anything from Plant Belles, a Devon company that makes wonderful plant supports and cloche hoops from rusted metal. Read more

    Posted on 21 May 2012 GARDENING
  • The Magical Tump Garden

    Magical Tump Garden

    There were some wonderful school gardens at the Malvern Show with the standard getting better each year. The children of Castlemorton Primary School were... Read more

    Posted on 19 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Magnificent Meconopsis

    Magnificent Meconopsis

    The cool damp weather may not have suited me, but it was perfect for the magnificent display of meconopsis from Kevock Plants. Read more

    Posted on 19 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Echium Envy

    Echium Envy

    This wonderful display of echiums stopped me in my tracks – a bit of me longed to buy E. wildpretii and E.fastuosum but having nurtured a fastuosum for a few... Read more

    Posted on 18 May 2012 GARDENING
  • A Thing of Beauty

    Thing Beauty

    I’ve long been a fan of the copper tools from implementations and Jane was showing prototypes of her latest design at Malvern. Read more

    Posted on 18 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Mudlarking at Malvern

    Mudlarking Malvern

    Thank goodness that the weekend weather at Malvern was glorious – which is more than can be said for Thursday morning when I was there. Read more

    Posted on 17 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Lawn Rescue

    Lawn Rescue

    Last autumn we moved many of our pots and containers on to the lawn so that the builders could work on the house. I had planed to lay a new lawn this spring... Read more

    Posted on 17 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Garden Africa

    Garden Africa

    is a wonderful charity that works with people in South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe training smallholders to grow crops to organic standards to... Read more

    Posted on 16 May 2012 CHARITY, GARDENING
  • World Vision Garden Planting

    World Vision Garden Planting

    Update from #rhsChelsea – Alongside the meaningful Lupinus mutabilis two colourful flowers in The World Vision Garden at RHS Chelsea are Geum borissi and Iris... Read more

    Posted on 15 May 2012 GARDENING
  • NGS Garden Tours

    Garden Tours

    The National Gardens Scheme raises millions for charity through its open gardens throughout the country and also has a programme of unusual and interesting... Read more

    Posted on 14 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Prim(ula) Perfection

    Prim(ula) Perfection

    It always amazes me the way the goldlace primula plants transform from scruffy winter survivors to flowery perfection in a few weeks. Each year I think they... Read more

    Posted on 13 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Life Beyond Gardener’s World

    Life Beyond Gardener’s World

    Toby Buckland is opening a plant center at Powderham Castle in Devon, following the launch of his online nursery last autumn. Like the online nursery, the... Read more

    Posted on 11 May 2012 GARDENING
  • My Garden School

    Garden School

    If you enjoy reading my blog and would like to learn more about the organic techniques that underly everything I do in my garden, you can sign up for my course... Read more

    Posted on 10 May 2012 GARDENING
  • Weaving My Way

    Weaving

    After three years, the woven silver birch edging to the path through my woodland garden had all but disappeared so I got myself a couple of large bundles of... Read more

    Posted on 09 May 2012 GARDENING