It’s no secret that a large part of the whole NGS experience is having cake. I’ve yet to find an NGS garden where home-made teas aren’t served. It’s part-and-parcel of …

I’m of the impression that most people don’t just want to see gardens, they want to have great cake too. Why else would we have so many gardens with integrated …

Well, here is something I don’t do every day, week or even year. If you’re reading this on my usual website you may have noticed more than just a few …

The garden is gradually maturing and developing its own character as the borders age and years pass by. Microclimates, ecosystems and food chains are forming and there’s a feeling of …

A couple of years ago we made an island border, it was the first large border in the garden to be dug. We planted it with various shrubs, one of …

I haven’t been writing much on the blog in the last few weeks as I’ve been concentrating on completing a book that will be coming up to three years since …

Earlier this week, an irreplaceable part of the borders died. It wasn’t a specimen tree, sentimental shrub or prized plant that died, it was Bob, the ginger cat. Bob doing …

This is probably the second post ever in the history of this blog that is distinctly NOT about gardening. Instead, it’s about what I spent the last couple of months …