Are Gardens just for Gardeners?

Do you visit art galleries and museums? Do you enjoy theatre and concerts? Hauser and Wirth – art gallery and Oudolf Gardens As a garden writer and garden maker I deeply regret that my audience for both appear to be almost exclusively gardeners. It is as if the works of painters and sculptors were only […]

Should thinkingardens migrate to Substack?

I think it’s possible that such platforms are the future. At least for as long as blogs were, once.

Otherworldly Gardens by Mary Keen

“The question to ask is, ‘what is here that is true, that is underneath the superficial things? What is here that matters?”

Autobiography of a Garden by Patterson Webster: a review

Autobiography of a Garden is about the garden making, Pat’s life, the history of the land, the ideas, the art, the plants and the devouring deer.

Garden regionally, get inspired globally by Marianne Willburn

But to dream, and perhaps more importantly, to innovate, we should inspire ourselves globally:

Chelsea or Chaumont? by Catharine Howard

“Have issue.  You were so adamant that you wouldn’t go to Chelsea again.  Discuss, please”.

Gifting the Ephemeral

. And now, knowing we won’t live forever, we’re thinking about what will happen to the house and garden when we die.

Hadspen aka The Newt in Somerset, by Anne Wareham

The garden is actually interestingly old fashioned. It’s not just the bedding but the relentless inclusion of every garden cliché, however brilliantly executed.