Hardy Perennial
Garden visit: Helmsley Walled Garden
Helmsley Walled Garden, view from the perennial meadow It’s hard not to be attracted to the romance of a walled garden and on a recent holiday to the North York Moors I visited two, this one, Helmsley Walled Garden, and …
End of month view: May 2015
The Long Shady Border, from the shadier end May has been much cooler month than normal, it’s been quite windy but there hasn’t been much rain. The Long Shady Border laughed off the vagaries of the weather and went ahead …
South Pennine HPS: National Collections and Favourite Plants from Avondale Nurseries
I have been wanting to visit Avondale Nursery near Coventry for a while. As luck would have it, Avondale, in the form of Brian Ellis, came to me, or rather, to give a talk at the South Pennine Hardy Plant Society last …
South Pennie HPS talk: a Spring plant demonstration by Rosy Hardy
Rosy Hardy from Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants gave a practical demonstration and talk on Spring plants for the garden at the South Pennine Hardy Plant Society last week. Rosy brought along a selection of Spring flowering plants and gave a …
Plants for boggy shade
Series 2 of Great British Garden Revival has had many enjoyable episodes, and for me, the most inspiring was the one on last night (21st January) with Joe Swift encouraging us to include a Bog Garden in our gardens. By …