Welcome to My Real Gardens, where I share 30 years of garden making know-how as a multi-award-winning garden designer. I'm here to share what honestly works in real gardens – proper advice without the jargon to help you grow.
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It’s Not Too Late to Buy Bulbs This Weekend
What I’d order today, and who still has them in stock at a good price.
Is it too late to buy bulbs? Most people will think it is, and it ABSOLUTELY ISN’T. The clocks went back last weekend and goodness me, the nights are drawing in early,...
Ten Trees for Hotter Summers and Wetter Winters
Scorched maples, struggling beech, sulking birches. Stand-ins that will cope better, plus where to buy them and how to keep them alive.
If you’ve been staring at a birch in your front garden that has sulked through the last two blazing sum...
Ten Shrubs I’d Plant Now (Because the Weather Is Anyone’s Guess).
The ones that’ll cope with hot summers and soggy winters (including one you can grind on your supper).
I used to think shrubs were a waste of space.
The Ten Plants I’m Planting Now for Next July
Planning for a soggy winter, then another drought. Where each plant goes, with combinations, and my one plant gamble.
You’re drifting up your garden path in your wafting linen dress strolling towards your favourite bench. It’s high summer...
I Cancelled 48 Bags of Mulch (and Nine Other Reasons to Be Cheerful)
Plus drought resistant roses, camassia rivers, and why I was wrong about garden centres with restaurants.
October sky. Warm lunchtimes that I feel slightly guilty enjoying, because I know exactly why we’re getting them. And a proper cold n...
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Colour-obsessed, multi-award-winning garden designer. 30 years designing gardens for other people, whilst growing one of my own. Weekly plants, colour, garden visits, reader dilemmas and honest confessions. Author of A Year of Colour.
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