It is New Years eve and I am the only sole in the garden today. It's just 8 am and its still quite dark as I take a quiet stroll through the woodland. Last nights fresh gale has strewn…

As the summer colour fades in the garden and the herbaceous borders begin to draw in the last of the autumn sun, there is an air of decline about the garden which always instills in me a sense of melancholy…

People often ask me why is Abbotsbury so successful at growing half hardy plants outside all year round without a  roof like the Eden Project down in Cornwall. Well, there is a sort of roof. We have hundreds of Holm…

With summer temperatures rising, crops ripening and the herbaceous borders blooming, for once I got it wrong this year for booking a holiday  in sunny Greece when it has been 30 C  back here !! But to paint the scene,…

Its the most busy time in the gardens right now with new bedding plants and perennials coming out from the glasshouse, tender sub-tropical plants being integrated into the borders and newly sourced rare plants finding a new home.  Planting time…