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Rudyard Kipling and his garden
Susannah FullertonThe first plants that Rudyard Kipling ever knew were exotic ones. He was born in India in 1865 and spent his first years surrounded by palms, mango and banana trees, […]
Tasmanian garden shopping
Jennifer StackhouseWe’ve long harboured a desire to live in a beautiful house and garden in Tasmania. It seemed like a dream – not something that would actually ever happen – but […]
The romantic Garden of Ninfa, Italy
Jennifer StackhouseIt was May and I was travelling through Italy enjoying a feast of gardens from Sorrento in the south to Lake Como on the north. That’s late spring in the […]
Botswana’s delicious Delta
Jane Griffiths“I am the magic ingredient” is written on the back of the chef’s T shirt in the open plan kitchen at Xudum Lodge in the Okavango Delta. Beyond the kitchen, […]
Giverny, a ‘bucket list’ garden of flowers
Alice Spenser-HiggsThe list of 1001 Gardens to See Before You Die includes the Giverny garden of Claude Monet and it is truly one for the bucket list. For gardeners who love […]
Gardens & volcanoes in Costa Rica
Alison StewartIt’s been a very, very wet and grey winter in the UK and we felt the need for some warmth and light, so in the first half of February we […]
A South American plant curiosity
Peter WhiteheadWhilst travelling in South America, we came across this intriguing plant by the name of Llareta – the Spanish name for the Yareta – Azorella compacta. It was highly conspicuous […]
Patagonian paradise
Peter WhiteheadWe recently returned from an eight-week odyssey to South America – it was one of those ‘bucket list’ things that had been gestating for quite a while. Once the ‘retired’ […]
Bronze medallists
Stephen RyanColoured foliage can certainly make a statement but like anything in the garden that isn’t green it can be overdone. Too many gold leaves can be glaring in strong sun […]
Water lily GIANTS at Longwood Gardens
Amanda MackinnonLongwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, USA is a sheer delight to visit. It’s one of those places that’s so good that it’s hard to pick a highlight. However, one of my […]
Morocco’s ‘Majorelle’ & Hotel La Mamounia
Linda GreenAs I mentioned in my last post there were only two gardens that I really wanted to visit in Morocco, Jardin Majorelle and Hotel La Mamounia, both of which are […]
Getty’s Roman villa and garden, LA
Sandra SimpsonThe ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried when Mt Vesuvius erupted in AD79, clearly made an impression on 19-year-old American J Paul Getty, soon to become an oil tycoon, when […]
Captain Cook’s ivy a worthy sailor
Matthew Popplewell“Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.” A quote by Captain […]
Gardening World Cup Japan 2013
Leon KlugeOnce again the USA, New Zealand, France, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the UK and Malaysia were all represented this year at the prestigious Gardening World Cup held annually in […]
Longwood Gardens a garden Disneyworld
Amanda MackinnonThe state of Pennsylvania in the USA is a treasure trove for horticulturists. With 30 public gardens within about an hour of the capital Philadelphia, it’s hard to know which […]
Green is the new black in Melbourne
Georgia WhyteA few months ago I took one of my regular trips down to Melbourne to visit a close girlfriend who lives there. Over the three days I was there, I […]
Escape summer heat in New York’s parks
Anne LatreilleJuly in New York City. Extreme heat and humidity, heavy traffic, surging crowds. What to do? Where to go? Art galleries seemed a good choice, being air-conditioned. But I could […]
A country house in France – and garden
Margaret CoryI have a friend who lives in France and she and her husband owned a beautiful, old, stone house in the Lot in south west France which they have just […]
Orchid fever
Ros AndrewsAs a first time visitor to the Chelsea Flower Show in late May, I felt like a kid in a candy shop. So much to see in such a short […]
The floating gardens of London
Paul UrquhartTwice a year, a unique barge community of barge gardens floating on the Thames is opened to the public to raise money for charity. Known as the Downings Road Moorings […]
Fountains, flowers (& storks) of Morocco
Linda GreenThere were only two gardens that I wanted to visit when we went to Morocco, Jardin Marjorelle and the gardens of the hotel La Mamounia, both in Marrakesh. I’ll do […]
La Louve – a very special garden
Peter WhiteheadI was very fortunate to visit La Louve in early June this year when taking a Ross Tour to Paris and Provence. How lucky we were with a glorious sunny […]
Flowers on Crete
Stephen RyanThe reason you haven’t heard from me for a while is that I’ve been travelling around the island of Crete for four weeks! (Well someone has to do it!) and […]
The succulent Karoo
Leon KlugeFlying over the white snowy mountains of the western cape and looking down at one of the 7 new natural wonders of the world – Table Mountain, towering above Cape […]
A garden in Provence
Bernard ChapmanMy partner and I decided to celebrate 35 years together by holidaying in Europe, mainly France. We had always wanted to see and smell the lavender fields of Provence during […]
Juan Grimm in harmony with nature
Warwick ForgeEveryone responds to the gardens of Juan Grimm – leading South American designer – and I often wonder at their beauty and the reasons for their success. It is in […]
Louisa Jones fell in love with France
Warwick ForgeLouisa Jones fell in love with France and Provence as a student in the late 1960s and lives there to this day. English friends said there were no important gardens in […]
Burle Marx’s other gardens
Paul UrquhartMany of the gardens designed by Burle Marx have been demolished or languish under neglect but many are lovingly maintained. A few we can visit quite easily, more though are […]
Roberto Burle Marx’s private Sitio
Paul UrquhartRoberto Burle Marx single-handedly changed the face of tropical garden design while introducing to the world a host of amazing indigenous Brazilian plants hitherto ignored by Brazilians. In the process […]
Of spice and tea
Jill SinclairAs someone who came to the study of landscape history from a love of flowers and gardening, I write surprisingly little about horticulture. So, to make amends, this whole post […]
War and Peace
Julie ThomsonOn a day when all manner of people turned out to publicly and conspicuously commemorate ANZAC Day, marching, singing, praying, dressing up in uniform, waving flags, wearing medals, beating drums, […]
That’s what gardeners do
Julie ThomsonYou can always pick gardeners on holidays. They have these funny habits they indulge when they are away from their familiar terrain. I speak both of my own behaviour and […]
The ugliest plant in the world
Stephen RyanAs you all probably know I’m a mad keen plant collector and within the constraints of climate and the size of my garden I want to grow as many different […]
Lonely trees
Linda GreenDo you ever see a tree and think “Where did you come from, where are your parents, how did you get here?”? I occasionally ponder these questions when I see […]
The Rock Garden at Chandigarh
Jill SinclairIt started in 1965 as an illegal development on protected forest land. Its creator was inspired by Le Corbusier’s use of concrete in the city of Chandigarh, yet what he produced […]
Xylothek – a touching, reading adventure
Bernhard FeistelAs we can read in this forum or elsewhere, gardening from a distance is far from easy, if not mad; awkward to plan and yet full of surprises. Last week […]
The last place you’d look for passionfruit
Jennifer StackhouseMy neighbour, artist Ros Goody, has the best crop of passionfruit ever this year, which is odd as her vine, possibly self-sown, grows under and around a jacaranda. It is […]
A Year (or two) in Kew
Tim EntwisleAs I prepare to leave London this week, I thought I’d reflect a little on my nearly two years at Kew, how I got here and why I’m leaving. A […]
World’s largest plant show
Amanda MackinnonEvery year in north western Germany the worlds biggest plant show takes place. Essen, the 9th largest German city, plays host to over 1500 exhibitors from 40 different countries. They […]
Auckland to Ayrlies – with cocktails
Helen YoungHaving been lucky enough to lead more than a dozen garden tours to various parts of Europe, Japan and Australasia over the last 10 years, I’ve recently returned from a […]
