RHS Garden Rosemoor is a garden of two halves. The first, a preserved, real life, family garden extending to eight acres around Rosemoor House, the home of Lady Anne Palmer, who donated her property to the RHS in 1988. Continue reading
Category: Garden Reviews
Revisiting Sissinghurst Castle Garden
I have something of an obsession with Sissinghurst. I think a little piece of me was left behind when I first visited; a piece of it coming with me forever more. Continue reading
Hatfield House Garden
It was a pretty murky day when we, raincoats donned, set off for Hatfield House. But not to worry, Hatfield was all about the house, the history and the heritage. I’d seen photos of its formal garden but decided that a glimpse out of the window would probably suffice: I didn’t particularly need to see lots of hedges close up. Continue reading
Kensington Roof Gardens Design
As I squeezed into the lift to the sixth floor, elbow to elbow with other visitors, I wasn’t overly excited about this one. I’d seen photos of the gimmicky flamingos and palm trees in this popular corporate events venue and the appeal of a local community coming together around a square of ancient plane trees and newly planted perennials was somewhat lacking. But having walked past the building many times over the last few months, there was something urging me on. Continue reading
Open garden squares weekend: Top 10
It would be fair to say it was a good garden-visiting weekend. I think twenty gardens over two days may well be a record, even for me. It’s certainly got me well and truly re-immersed in the possibilities and opportunities of English gardening.
I’ve managed to filter down to my top ten. Here, in the order that I visited. Continue reading
Eccleston Square, London
It’s early May and unless you’re pampering Chelsea Show plants in a five star greenhouse, it’s too early for most perennials to be putting on their show of colour. Spring bulbs, meanwhile, are just about over, so we just have to wait, right? Continue reading
Michael McCoy’s Mount Macedon design
An imaginarily perfect garden, or a real life one?
You could be forgiven for thinking this was one of those ‘imaginary’ gardens. You know, the impossibly perfect ones you see on Pinterest – with no mention of Continue reading
Steven Wells’ Melbourne garden
Steven Wells’ home garden. Bliss!
I’ve so many ‘favourite’ gardens I really need to expand my vocab of adjectives. And so I’m assigning ‘cleverest’ to this next one: Steven Continue reading
Le Jardin Secret, Medina-Marrakech
Pops of colour at Le Jardin Secret, Marrakech
Oh, boy. We may not be having an awful lot of luck buying houses at the moment, but this week certainly made up for it. It just so happened that a brand new garden, Continue reading
Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech
We loved the sound of frogs and cute sunbathing turtles in and around the main pond at Jardin Majorelle
I’ve seen photos of Jardin Majorelle many times. It’s always struck me as an interesting garden, but not a ‘me’ garden. Too cactusy, too loud with its hard landscaping Continue reading
Janna Schreier Garden Design 