This garden is inspired by simple pleasures, and by the olive groves, ochre-coloured villas and cypress-dotted landscape of Tuscany. It combines practical considerations such as privacy, dining and playing with colour, fragrance and pattern.
The outdoor dining room is central to the design and is surrounded by so...
DahliasThere are fashions in flowers as there are in most things. I was thinking about the fashion highs and lows of the dahlia last weekend as I was digging tubers from one of our cutting garden beds. One entire plot is now devoted to dahlias, because there is simply no better cut flower, and we get flowers for such a long time...
Graham shares the love he has with conifers.I love conifers, always have, not only because of their permanency in the landscape, their diversity of colours and shapes but also, when chosen carefully, their hardiness. Unfortunately many gardeners aren't familiar with the charms of the conifer family. They are a comple...
Planting for a purpose has always existed in garden design and hedging has always had a reason for being, though now the intensity of the 'need for privacy' has overtaken more ornamental reasons for hedging. But before you rush down to the garden centre to fill the boot with plants to screen out the neighbours, consider ...
Behind the complex beauty of the unusual flowers of Aristolochia elegans (better known as the Dutchman's pipe) lies a menace to one of Australia's prettiest butterflies, the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly.
I photographed these extraordinary blooms on tour in Scandinavia, in the glasshouses of the Oslo Botanic Garden, in Sweden. Th...
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