It’s that time of year again. Christmas present lists are beginning to litter everyone’s kitchen tables. If you are near the delightful Kentish Wealden town, Hawkhurst, you must visit Cranbrook Iron’s ‘pop up’ shop opening on the 6th November at Septimus Quayles,
Four hundred private gardens to visit in two days is an astonishing statistic but that is what the National Garden Scheme’s (known by many as the NGS) annual weekend Festival (6th & 7th June) is all about. The NGS was
16th May -7th June Dubbed ‘the fastest growing fringe festival ever’ by the World Festival network, the Chelsea Fringe, www.chelseafringe.co.uk now in its fourth year, is firmly established as a highlight of the gardening calendar. ‘The idea is twofold, to celebrate
Ideally flicking through a Summers Place Auctions (summersplaceauctions.com) catalogue of their forthcoming auction of Garden and Natural History on 14th and 15th April, my eye was caught by Lot 336: ‘A collection of Pulhamite stone: 19th-century’. What on earth is Pulhamite
Anyone encountering the ancient art of chestnut coppicing for the first time must wonder why a great swathe of woodland has apparently been wantonly chopped down. Aren’t we meant to be protecting forests and woodland at home as well as in far flung exotic climes? The answer is
At last the age old thorny problem of what clothes to wear when gardening has been solved by two lady gardening whizzes. Genus Performance Gardenwear (www.genus.gs) was established just over a year ago by Sue O’Neil, a sexagenarian entrepreneur. It
What is the optimum time for taking sensational garden photographs? It is not midday day on a gloriously sunny summer’s day but early in the morning just after sunrise when the quality of light is best. Some years ago the renowned garden
What brings together Ljubljana, Bristol, Turin, Norwich, Kent and Brighton, not forgetting London and Vienna? Answer: Chelsea Fringe, the open-access festival celebrating everything to do with gardens, plants, landscape and the environment. ‘I knew my life would massively change from