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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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026: My Very Honest Preview
What’s really going on at this year’s show?
Posted Friday 15th May 2026. The Chelsea news is moving fast this year, so some details may have shifted between my filing and your reading. I suppose that’s the nature of pre-show week!
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Pricking Out (Not, Sadly, a Euphemism)
Thirty years in and I still hate it. Ten tips that genuinely help. Plus: live session this Sunday.
I HATE pricking out.
Forde Abbey: What I Saw, What I’m Stealing
A visit with Joe Swift, fifty thousand tulips, and a meadow I’d have paid the entry fee for alone.
Visiting a garden you’ve admired from afar can be dangerous, can’t it? The expectation is palpable, the palms of the hands moist when handin...
Composting, honestly.
The secrets of success (and my dirty one too), four systems, a hotbin’s contents that once fell on my head, every niggly question answered and an admission I’d rather not be making (forgive me!)
I’ve told you that THIS is the weekend. Said...
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30 years designing real gardens, growing one of my own. Colour obsessed. Allergic to beige. Honest about the wins AND the disasters. Author of A Year of Colour.
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