With the heat wave currently restricting me to the shade of my office and cooling fan, I thought it provided an ideal opportunity to write about drought-tolerant gardens. We spent a week in August 2012 visiting gardens in Essex and East Anglia, one of the driest areas of the UK. The first one we visited … Continue reading Drought Tolerant Gardens.
July can be an anticlimax in the garden following the excitement of June with its roses, peonies and Iris.These are some of the plants trying to fill the void here in our garden. The sunny front border is always home to some self-seeded Eryngium Giganteum (Miss Willmotts Ghost) as popular with the pollinators as the … Continue reading July in Our Garden@19
We recently visited a group of gardens in Worcester who were opening for the National Garden Scheme, I don't think many of the visitors would have expected to find such a wonderful Bonsai collection in Worcester. From the NGS website, "The garden has been 14 years in the making. It was designed around a collection … Continue reading Bonsai in Worcester.
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