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We've had many people this month bemoaning how bare their borders are, but here in the walled garden at our nursery in Shaftesbury (The Potting Shed) we have a sweet shop of colour. So I have compiled a list of our top ten plants to add colour in August.
A few of my favourite gardens from this year's show
I cannot remommend a visit to this National Trust garden enough. We visited last weekend (15th June) and despite forecasts of rain the sun came out sufficiently to enjoy the planting in all its glory.
When the green fullness of summer has died back is the winter skeleton that you are left with sufficient to maintain interest until fresh growth begins again in earnest?
I’m so thrilled to announce that my first show garden has won Gold at the Hampton Court Flower Show!
I’m delighted to announce that Butterfly World has become the new butterfly partner for my show garden at Hampton Court Flower Show in July.
It’s odd isn’t it but they’re still talking about the threat of a hosepipe ban in the horticultural world while the rest of us wade through lakes that used to the roads and stock up on sandbags.
At some point I do start to wonder whether I might have been a little crazy when I decided to grow my own plants for my first ever Hampton Court show garden.
Garden Re-Leaf Day is a nationwide series of gardening events design to engage gardeners young and old and raise funds for Greenfingers, the charity that builds gardens at children’s hospices. In support of this I have asked local primary schools in Wiltshire and Dorset to create a miniature garden in a seed tray
I’m really looking forward to seeing the construction and planting of the garden I have just designed for a farm under restoration near Abbotsbury, south Dorset. I’ve used some really exciting Mediterranean, drought tolerant plants to connect to the gardens sheltered location in the warmer end of Dorset and the surrounding natural stone barn walls.