Garden design is inherently divisive: different gardens please various tastes, and serve a range of purposes from practical to political to pulchritudinous. What to choose? The best way to consider anything serious, according to kings and queens of yore, is to drink on it, and to think on it, on separate days.That’s a useful approach… Continue reading Chelsea Garden Shows for 2025
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National Tree Week 2024
National Tree Week, 23 November – 1 December this year, was launched in 1975 to raise awareness of the huge role that trees play in all of our lives. It coincides with the start of the winter planting season, an ideal time to get people working together in the rain and cold to improve their… Continue reading National Tree Week 2024
Peat-Free Partnership’s Open Letter to Parliament
When we heard about the Peat Free Partnership’s open letter to the UK Parliament calling for a ban on peat use, we thought, ah, it has nothing to do with us; all the plants we grow ourselves have been peat free for years already. But then the good people at the Peat Free Partnership said… Continue reading Peat-Free Partnership’s Open Letter to Parliament