Seeing the Garden by Anne Wareham
It would be easier to make and maintain a good garden if we could see what we are doing. But we can’t. The problem is that we can go out and look at our gardens every day without ever managing to see them clearly. I think the difficulty is that evolution...
Veddw in late summer by Anne Wareham for the English Garden Magazine
The trick to keeping your borders going all the way through to the winter is shopping. Garden centres report that their peak period for plant purchases is spring, which is why we have a great many gardens that peak early in the year and very few good late...
Voted one of the UK’s Top 100 Gardens by Garden News
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