Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
They may not make for good photos, but sloping gardens offer a journey of changed perspectives. The King's garden at Highgrove is flat. Which made me think about the different [...]
We visited Highgrove so you don’t have to. An American tour guide once told me that Americans always want to visit The Laskett and Highgrove, so she takes them there [...]
This video from the Kew Mutual Improvement Society in the U.K. blew my mind a bit and I'm curious to see what you guys think. It's an online lecture by [...]
Entrance garden includes Hesperaloe parviflora, the pink flower seen here. It's a favorite of hummingbirds. I'm back with another Ed Snodgrass story, this one about a tour of [...]
We are plagued by garden designers in the UK. They are everywhere, telling us what to do and how to do it, and what plants to buy. Especially what plants [...]
I passed a gentleman sat with his wife. “There's not much colour” he remarked to her. I looked up, I looked one way and the other, I looked down. Colour [...]
In my recent post covering Henry Mitchell's advice about lawns and alternatives thereto, I promised to next share his ideas on designing gardens for lower maintenance, also from The Essential [...]
Garden visiting is one of the most important things a gardener can do. Getting out of our gardens to see what other people are up to is not an indulgence, [...]
Those who know me, know I don’t travel. And those who know me, know that there are very few gardens in Britain which I admire. But here is a garden [...]
A lawnless garden somewhere in DC. Finding myself with nothing handy to read at the pool, I picked up my extremely marked-up copy of Henry Mitchell's The Essential [...]
Being Helpful The Handsome Helper made a complaint recently when we were walking in the garden. When I complained about him complaining he told me that it was [...]
It's everywhere. Various Chelsea Flower Show gardens this year included the newly fashionable weeds. Interestingly, I saw someone quoted as saying that that was ok because ‘it was [...]
