Meeting horticultural heroes
Plus perennial veg and yet more amazing drought-tolerant plants
Bud to Seed
A garden editor’s diary. Monthly to-do lists, weekly jottings and garden musings.
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10 resilient plants at Knepp this summer
Plus dahlias and a visit to Milli Proust's new flower farm headquarters
The power of plants
My diary this week knits together several disparate events to show how plants and flowers can be transformative in so many ways.
Ideas for heatwave gardening
What August is looking like in my garden
Hollyhocks at Charleston
And a fascinating if sobering chat with Dave Goulson about bees, pesticides and our food chain
Sweet peas and cottage garden colour
Hello all, and welcome to the weekend.
A secret garden in the heart of London
This week I seem to have been writing day and night, both for House & Garden and for a reissue of my book, Winter Gardens, which will be published this autumn.
The plants that are surviving the heatwave
And the ones that I might have to say goodbye to
Delphinium Dad
I promised a chapter from Pastoral Gardens this week as I’m going away, but I just had to tell you about my delphinium day instead, while it’s fresh in my mind, so the London garden chapter will be with you at some point soon.
Astrantias and other June planting inspiration
More garden visits to report back from in this week’s diary.
A garden marathon
An intense week of garden visiting to share