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Use winter to plot, plan and develop your growing.  There’s a whole lot of joy to be had looking at seed catalogues online, or getting them in the post and perusing in bed, curled up on the sofa, on the commute.  However, selecting can be mind boggling, given the wonderfully wide range of varieties plant …

Visiting Kew earlier this month I enjoyed the low winter sun on the rusting patina of the ‘stems’ holding up the treetop walkway. Angles in the structure replicate the angle in some branching trees, and also some of the adjacent paths in the park.  The orange colour was picked up in the last few leaves …

Two fabulous aspects of holly to behold at Kew Gardens: the grand scale curvaceous formal hedge and topiay which echo the form of the Palm house, so sharply clipped and stately in the hazy December approaching dusk… …and the holly walk (link to Kew’s webpage), over 1000m long with ’56 species and hybrids, making this …

Concept gardens are motivated by an idea and contain a ‘macguffin’, an element that makes the design tick.  It’s a term the film maker Hitchcock used (you can look up examples) to describe plot drivers, or hooks that aren’t necessarily that important in the end, but nonetheless underpin the story. The pop up Urban Physic …