23 - 25 May 2013
One of the great things about the Chelsea Flower Show is that you don’t need to go to the actual event to benefit from it. It spawns all kinds of spin-offs and celebrations, such as the Chelsea Fringe: the Alternative… Continue reading
Scarlet and Violet pop up shop at Couverture: 21 - 25 May 2013. Vic Brotherson's flower arranging demos: 23 May - 10am, 12pm & 2pm
This is a triple whammy of delights, which will inevitably lead to Too Much Shopping. But we are calming the slightly panicking feeling we get when confronted by many tempting things available to buy (how to choose? how to justify?),… Continue reading
Ah, spring is here. And so are the spring bulbs. Last autumn, we planted a whole load of bulbs – hyacinth, iris reticulata, crocus, snowflakes, narcissi, fritillaries, and tulips. The squirrels ate all the crocus. There was a mighty battle… Continue reading
How thrilling to go out into the garden and find this: our first camelia flower of winter. And what a surprise, because they usually flower in early January. Seeing them bloom helps us get out of bed in the dark… Continue reading
So, here we are, at the beginning of October, suddenly in blazing heat, but still the garden is in major wind down mode, with only the last of the trusty cosmos still flowering.
A… Continue reading
Blog and website: open all hours. Shop open Mon - Sat, 11am-6pm
Ben Pentreath is an architect, who also has one of the best shops in London (and online). He writes a regular blog which we love. Here is why. For one thing, we have Ben Pentreath-lifestyle envy and enjoy feeding that… Continue reading
If you read gardener and landscape designer Dan Pearson’s column in The Observer, you’ll know that he recently bought a small holding in the West Country, so leaving behind his jewel-like garden in Peckham Rye. Being London gardeners ourselves, we… Continue reading
Woottens is open 7 days a week all year round, 9.30am - 5pm
Woottens is famous in particular for its Auriculas, Hemerocalis, Pelargoniums and Iris (its two acre Bearded Iris field is open every year from 24 May to 10 June, and is worth travelling to see), but the nursery sells all manner… Continue reading
Paperwhites look delicious, smell delicious and are dead easy to grow.
You can buy them in bunches, yes, but if you grow them from bulbs, they’ll last for weeks. The ones in this picture shot up in about four weeks,… Continue reading
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