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My unlikely global study of outdoor furniture made from polyester resin ends...
The raffia or rattan look I admit my fascination with polyester resin garden furniture may place me in a small minority. My global study, superficial as it is, may make it an even smaller club. I...
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The Moorish Gardens of Andalucian Spain
Moorish gardens of Southern Spain - the Alhambra & I didn’t really know what to expect of gardens in the south of Spain, although Glyn Church had told me that the Alhambra and Generalife in Granada...
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Ficus antiarus, rare plants and why only one plant in our garden is clearly...
The curious fruit of Ficus antiarus I admit to a wry smile when I read friend and colleague Glyn Church writing of the pileostegia (climbing evergreen hydrangea) He made a comment that if you are keen...
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The pitfalls and perils of garden water features
It may be a natural stream in our park but it is hardly an easy care water feature Water is an important inclusion in any garden, or so the common wisdom says. We laughed when Joe Swift on BBC...
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Decoding the jargon
Setting the standard for garden rooms - Sissinghurst A newsletter from a gardening organisation arrived a few days before Christmas and I duly read it, coming across the following statement (warning:...
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The New Zealand Garden – is there such a thing?
The D.I.Y. Lutyens-style sunken garden We have been talking about the New Zealand garden. This conversation has been given new impetus by the lack of any analysis of the nature of the New Zealand...
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Agapanthus -the blue (and white) stars of our summer roadsides
Our summer roadsides would be the poorer without agapanthus We have a bit of a love-hate relationship with agapanthus here in Taranaki and in warmer areas of this country. But as you drive around the...
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Blighted!
Fortunately not our garden, but it has been pretty discouraging for the friends whose garden it is. Buxus blight on the rampage. I am not the world’s greatest fan of buxus hedging. But I have some...
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In the garden this fortnight: April 12, 2012
A fortnightly series first published in the Weekend Gardener and reproduced here with their permission. Celmisia (New Zealand's mountain daisy) are not within their normal climatic range here We have a...
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But where are the hollyhocks?
Bragging rights on the home grown pineapple “But where are the hollyhocks? I can’t find any hollyhocks,” the garden visitor said last weekend. I can honestly say that that is a first here. Nobody has...
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