Tiptoe through the tulips
Quite literally. The tulip festival at Pashley Manor Gardens is great, but trying to get into the borders to weed and primp when they're...
Nice and comfrey
I read about liquid confrey feed years ago but it's only now I have my own reasonably-sized garden that I've been able to make it....
The seeds of change
I have been manically sowing seeds for a few weeks. I may have started too early, and end up with a huge log jam of plants waiting to go...
To Heligan in a handcart
Not really - actually just 'to Heligan'. Celebrating a rather too big birthday, and spent a weekend visiting Heligan and the Eden...
Give them support!
Hand-woven plant supports - this one I made for a herbaceous clematis in a client's garden. Much more beautiful than those 'orrible...
I couldn't give a fig
Another year, another few days of training the whippy growth on the fig at Pashley Manor into spirals. It takes a very long ladder to get...
Tulip scrumptious
In addition to my self-employed work, I do two days a week at Pashley Manor Gardens in Ticehurst. It helps keep me sane by breaking up...
Rose pruning
Rose pruning is one of my favourite activities. Actually, I love pruning in general, but at this time of year it's roses I find myself...
Flower installation at the Garden Museum
A trip to the Garden Museum for the Fashion and Gardening exhibition. An interesting, if tiny, exhibition and some lovely bits of...
Spiral-trained fig at Pashley Manor
I have never seen this done anywhere else, although Mr Sellick, the owner, tells me that this is an idea he pilched from Sissinghurst. A...
