When I was a young thing my boss took me to the Groucho Club and asked me about my five year plan. Huh? Where did I want to be in five yea...

Back to Cot'sbrooke last week to haunt it once again. The occasion was the garden fete, held on the south lawn. Besides a man on stil...

"When is Cottesbrooke Plantfinders Fair coming back?" people often wail. At least around here they do, where we in the East ...

At 7 o'clock on a clear morning in May, gardens look pretty good. Inside the Royal Hospital grounds, the finest show gardens on offer...

The Garden Museum in London was host to a 'fashion panel' the other night which was impossible to resist: Amanda Harlech (muse)...

The thing about good designers is: they are just trying to make sense of space. There is a logic. Touring around the garden of an i...

There is a moment on the Stourhead estate, post-visitor centre, pre-ticket kiosk, when you find yourself walking along a lower road, st...

On writing about Derry Watkins and the experience that is Special Plants near Bath recently, I mentioned in passing that she has a floral...