The Village Show
I’m sure several of you will have visited a Village Show at some time over the summer and strolled round the horticultural tent, perhaps thinking “wow” and occasionally “mine at…
RHS Garden Rosemoor
Down here in lovely Devon we have no shortage of wonderful gardens to visit when wanting a stroll and some inspiration. RHS Rosemoor Garden is probably is the brightest of…
Pashley Manor Gardens
Visit Pashley Manor Gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, and see a wide range of vegetables grown from seed supplied by Dobies of Devon. For many years Dobies…
Garden Stitching Fever
Little did I know when I designed and stitched a sampler to celebrate my daughter’s 21st birthday that I would be blogging about it over twenty years later. Garden stitching…
Gateway to Gardening
Gardeners seeking inspiration and ideas for their home plot will assuredly enter a gateway to gardening when visiting RHS Shows. The RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) is Britain’s gardening charity, keeping…
Theatre at its best!
If you come to think of it, horticultural shows are pure theatre. From the staging of exhibits and displays of flowers, fruit and vegetables, to competition gardens. Some showgrounds are…
Brittany Observed (or parts of it)
Quintessentially France I have just returned from ten days in Brittany – wonderful weather and over 700 miles of touring, door to door. Camera and journal / sketchbook allowed me…
Open your eyes !
In the last of my posts on photography in the garden, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes open! Open to the possibilities that lie all around you.…
Show time again!
No sooner was I back from the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show than I made a snap decision to head north and spend a day at another RHS show! The…
RHS Shows designed to inspire
Fortunate indeed are those of us who are able to visit some of the major Gardening Shows in the UK. Going to these events offers the keen gardener so much…