Great Dixter - the unbearable build-up

Great Dixter is one of my favourite places in the world.  Has been for nearly 30 years.  I’ve been deliriously happy there and horribly stressed.  In that house and garden, I’ve experienced hig ...

Just give me a year

It’s completely baffling to me how English, American (and, frankly, therefore Australian) gardeners and designers have remained profoundly ignorant of the rigorous research being carried out in Germ ...

Experiencing horti-psychological whiplash

Watch as the German Landscape Architect Bettina Jaugstetter reframes my thinking about successional planting. I go on about what Christopher Lloyd taught me, then Bettina, having listened attentively, ...

A New Contender For My Favourite Garden?

Gravetye Manor is a floral explosion of gardening at its highest difficulty level. Tom Coward, as head gardener, manages this stupendous feat of carefully timed planting in such a way as to inspire yo ...

An evening at Beth's

The Beth Chatto Symposium, organised to celebrate Beth’s 95th year, and the 40th anniversary of the publication of Beth’s first book The Dry Garden included a garden party which, as if channelling ...

One Thing - Fiona Brockhoff's Garden

Another video.  This time one of the most game-changing gardens in Australia I’ll add a pic, just to entice you.. ...

One Thing - Ninfa

Is Ninfa, as is so often claimed, the most romantic garden in the world?   ...