Highlights at Wisley today include the alpine houses, bonsai walk, the exotic garden, the orchard and the Piet Ouldolf borders around the glasshouse. The petunia trial bed was looking pretty… Continue Reading

A beautiful day at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, the former home of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson. This garden is designated Grade I on Historic England’s register of historic parks… Continue Reading

Great Comp Garden is near Sevenoaks and is one of the finest gardens in Kent. Over 7 acres surrounds a 17th century manor house and is home to an Italian… Continue Reading

Internationally acclaimed Dutch landscape designer, author and plantsman Piet Oudolf created a wild-looking meadow-style garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2018 and earned himself the inaugural RHS Horticultural Hero award. I had the… Continue Reading

The star of the show today, at Beth Chatto’s garden, was the Gravel Garden, which was orignally a car park and set up by Beth and her team as an… Continue Reading

Hit by the Beast from the East at Kew today – so beautiful!

The theme of the 23rd annual Orchid Festival was Thailand. Over 4,000 Phalaenopsis orchids (grown by Double H Nurseries especially for the Festival) are on display alongside Lycaste bradeorum, Pleurothallis… Continue Reading

“The Isabella Plantation is a 40 acre woodland garden set within a Victorian woodland plantation planted in the 1830’s. First opened to the public in 1953, it is best known… Continue Reading