Not a day to lose, October is bulb planting time and also November! The choice is extraordinary. You can have the most amazing colours of disco lights and fireworks from January to July! In the garden, pots, lawns, woodland, house, roadside, anywhere! Bulbs and corms...
A visit to the old Tate a few days ago, found us standing in front of so many wonderful paintings by Turner. I still haven’t recovered and don’t want to! The beauty, the delicacy, the skill, the insight and intelligence and the passion of his use of colour...
This was the High Street in Oxford this morning, Wednesday. Yesterday was grey and raining, and tomorrow is forecast grey and raining. But today, the light is fantastic, a blue sky, you can see detail which is just not there at all in the so often grey. This is...
In one garden, hundreds of pounds have been spent on bird feeders, seeds and nesting boxes. And a bath. The garden now offers six star luxury full board accommodation to a host of feathery friends, including migratory visitors in the spring. The spirit of a garden is...
Whilst many tulip (and other spring flowering) bulbs are being planted in clients gardens, this wonderful charity will also be planting fields and fields of them in locations across France and Belgium. The fields are then opened in April and May for visitors to pick...
As my usual tube station at Marylebone was closed, I alighted at Edgware Road. What a welcome discovery this magnificent living green wall was, particularly as it is sited right beside the pretty hostile A40 flyover. New research continues to conclude that green walls...
