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Together_by Nature – Botanical Potter New Maker of the Year at Great Dixter

Published on: May 20th, 2025
Posted In: Flowers, Profiles

If any potter has caught the zeitgeist of the moment it is Forest Tozer of Together By Nature. Recently  appointed New Maker of the Year at Great Dixter she creates beautiful plates, bowls, butter and soap dishes and candlesticks all

Stokesay Flowers

Published on: September 28th, 2023
Posted In: Flowers, Profiles

Seduced by Stokesay Flowers’ ravishing Instagram pictures, I was excited about meeting Victoria Martin, who with her husband, Barney grow thousands of cut flowers every year in south Shropshire. I wasn’t disappointed. ‘It’s all about romance.  Everything we do is

Kent Wildflower Seeds

Published on: August 1st, 2023
Posted In: Flowers, Profiles

Kent Wildflower Seeds, a recently launched offshoot of T. Denne & Sons, the largest processors of grass seed in the country has caught the zeitgeist and responds to the rapidly changing face of agriculture. Innovation, and no doubt a canny

Water Lane, Hawkhurst

Published on: February 20th, 2023
Posted In: Flowers, Profiles

All walled gardens undergo a renaissance at some point in their history.   Just such a case is Water Lane near Hawkhurst, Kent.  Its last incarnation was the Walled Nursery (see blog post September 2017).  This wonderfully atmospheric 2 acre walled

No Name Nursery

Published on: December 14th, 2022
Posted In: Flowers, Gardens, Plant Nurseries

To visit the intriguingly called ‘No Name Nursery ‘in East Kent is an exhilarating experience. In just three years Steve Edney and his partner Lou Dowle have established a veritable horticultural tour de force.  The scope of the enterprise is

A visit to the national collection of geums

Published on: May 4th, 2022
Posted In: Flowers, Plant Nurseries

‘I have 115 different varieties of geums’ says Sue Martin who holds the national collection. The irresistible crinkly papery flowers are available in a wide range of colours from subtle shades of dusky pink to bright orange. ‘They are such

Lida Kindersley and Steven Coghill at King’s College, Cambridge

Published on: July 3rd, 2021
Posted In: Flowers, Profiles

King’s College, Cambridge, has a new energy-efficient development  on Cranmer Road, designed by Allies and Morrison and built to Passivhaus standard, to provide new accommodation for the College’s graduate students.It is a haven of floriferous joy:  an exquisite slate memorial

Legendary horticulturalist Maurice Foster

Legendary plantsman, Maurice Foster

Published on: November 9th, 2020
Posted In: Flowers, Gardens, Profiles, Uncategorized

Over the years, White House Farm, near Sevenoaks, has become a mecca for plantsmen the world over. Home to more than 200 different kinds of magnolia, hundreds of hydrangeas (many of them bred by Maurice), an outstanding collection of climbing

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Flowers delivered to the door during the Coronavirus emergency

Published on: April 2nd, 2020
Posted In: Flowers

What could be more cheering than receiving a bunch of English flowers during this horrid Coronavirus emergency? Luckily a few plucky wholesalers and growers are battling on. I have talked to a wholesaler and a florist who both specialise in

Faversham Open Gardens 2019

Published on: June 18th, 2019
Posted In: Events, Flowers, Gardens

If you love visiting gardens you are in for a treat on Sunday 30th June, when an astonishing tally of 30 gardens are taking part in Faversham Open Gardens Day. The attractive ancient market town in East Kent has much

Flower Fairies

Published on: August 10th, 2018
Posted In: Events, Flowers

Do you believe in Fairies? In today’s technological world I am pleased to say that fairies are as popular as ever. The desire to escape and believe is still potent. Young, middle-aged and aged fairy fanciers are flocking to the

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Irises of Sissinghurst

Published on: May 16th, 2018
Posted In: Flowers, Plant Nurseries

Irises are all the rage, no doubt partly fuelled by the two current exhibitions devoted to Cedric Morris, the celebrated 20th-century painter of and breeder of irises (The Garden Museum and the Philip Mould Gallery). Did you know that it

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