With the heat of summer long gone and autumn yet to start with a vengeance, you’d be forgiven for thinking there isn’t a lot of point getting out on a…
It’s back to school this week, and for one group of young children in Hampshire the experience will be quite different from the start of term in September 2012. Last…
I recently posted a blog about choosing art for the garden. And there’s no better way to get inspired than to get out and visit the myriad of sculpture gardens,…
I’m a great fan of adding art (of whatever size or form) into the garden. Nothing pleases me more than clients asking me to create spaces in their design for…
If sculpture is your thing, and you’re around Hampshire in the next few days then I suggest you take the opportunity to visit The Garden Gallery in Broughton, near Stockbridge.…
I love my annual pilgrimage to the Chelsea Flower Show, and even though it's a long, tiring (and this year, cold!) day, it's just great to spend hours and hours…
One of the quickest and cheapest ways to fill your garden with a splash of summer colour is to grow hardy annuals. These are flowers which you can sow as…
It’s not quite spring yet, but being a hardy Northerner I never let a bit of cold weather get between me and my garden visits, so this weekend I headed…
In the depths of winter when there’s not much else going on in the garden scented plants really come into their own. One of the top plants for winter fragrance…