A few pictures from a project I am working on in Havant. The garden is sloped and south facing. It is difficult to maintain and keep tidy given the slope, that it bakes dry in the summer and can be wet in the winter. The brief was to create a space that can be enjoyed, […]
Plant List – November 2018
A list of everything currently growing in my garden; A record for me, and to see what was still flowering, or flowering again in November. I can also propagate to order if there is something below that you are after. Drop me an email and I will let you know if I have any in […]
My Little Green Machine
If you are going to offer gardening services, you will need to mow lawns. Now, I am quite happy mowing a lawn; I love the smell of freshly cut grass, I like seeing a neatly cut lawn but how on earth was I going to cart about a mower in my family car. So I […]
Nursery Opens For Business
I’ve finally got round to sorting out all my stock, labelling it all (hopefully correctly – thank goodness for RHS Plant Finder), and most important of all advertising some opening hours. Its still a work in progress, and I think will forever be so, but its a good start and I am really pleased and […]
Limonium platyphyllum
This has been a favourite of mine ever since I first saw it at The Homestead, owned by Mary and Stan Pike. It took me a little while to hunt down its name, which had been forgotten, and then to find a supplier. Finally last year I managed to acquire my own plant and set […]
The Old Workshop – June 2018
A few shots of my garden currently. The small bed with the Rowan Tree is about 2 years old now. The tree is coming along nicely and has added some cover for the small birds to dive into or wait in for their turn on the feeder. The bed on the opposite side of the […]
The Rose Garden – Part 2
11th May 2018 – I have started to cut the edges in for the new borders that will form the Centenary Rose Garden. Given it is just 5 weeks till Mike and Chrissi open the gardens on 17th June, I am not sure I will have got much going on in these borders, but at […]
Woodland Walk
This is what I was faced with in October of last year. Whilst slowly collecting and piling up the leaves I looked up this bank and started to plan. The fence that runs up the bank created a dead end for anybody walking along the bank from the house. Your only option was to turn […]
The Kitchen Garden
This week I have been concentrating on repairing and renovating the kitchen garden and fruit cage at Packridge Farm. When the garden is in full flow I have very little time to spend in the veg patch and so some of the work I am doing is to try and reduce the amount of weeding […]
David Standing on Old Fashioned Flowers
Today the HIHS welcomed David Standing to Hayling to talk about his experience as Head Gardener at Gilbert White’s House in Selbourne. David recently retired, May 2017, from Gilbert White’s house after spending the best part of forty years in the job. Still passionate about old varieties, and the history of the gardens at Gilbert […]