Category Archives: England
A garden fit for a king, Hampton Court Palace
Graham Ross heads to the southwest of London to the palatial gardens of England’s most flamboyant king, King Henry VIII, and interviews the head gardener about those infamous yew trees and a great living treasure known as the Great Vine.…
Country Life
A romantically pretty country garden, on the edge of the city. That’s the dream of the owners of The Old Vicarage in London’s Petersham. Find out how they made it a reality in this excerpt from Great Gardens of London.…
The Wrap Up: Hampton Court Flower Show 2015
Andrew Fisher Tomlin reviews the largest annual show in the world Words by Andrew Fisher Tomlin / Images by Andrew Fisher Tomlin With perhaps one of the best backdrops to a garden show there is the RHS Hampton Court…
Is Sissinghurst still worth the visit?
Visitors have been gobsmacked by Sissinghurst’s gardens since 1937 where they would put a shilling in a tin, often walking around the gardens as Vita and Harold gardened. In fact they nicknamed the visitors “shillingses” – which I think is…
Awesome Aussies win at Chelsea Flower Show
This week Chelsea happened, and what a ripper! The lupin flowers towered; the sweet peas knocked us out with their fragrance; the clematis dazzled and roses and alliums were all insanely good. But there, amongst the maelstrom of international nurseries,…
Graham’s Chelsea Highlights
As Graham Ross finishes up another year presenting the Royal Horticultural Society’s 2014 Chelsea Flower Show he takes time to share his favourite moments from the week that was. And yep we love that his jacket matches the cobalt blue…
Picked up at Chelsea
I’ve been making plans for sowing some deep purple sweet peas I picked up at Chelsea last year. I said no to this elegant version of a grass skirt (!) but I was helpless before the wave of sweet peas…
West Green House: fun in the garden
Did you ever see the wonderfully romantic Kennerton Green in Mittagong in the Southern Highlands of NSW? Its creator, Marylyn Abbott, has spent the past 20 years in a quiet corner of Hampshire applying her great style, enthusiasm and humour…