Tonight is one of those rare nights that I already know I will remember.  It’s 8pm on the 29th September and pitch dark, but I am sitting outside, warm and comfortable in my work shorts and one of Dave’s thin wool jumpers. We recorded 26.7C in the shade today on the nursery. It’s still warm […]

Bear with me – this is not the usual ‘all royalties are theft’ complaint.  I don’t really object to people earning royalties from introducing a new plant. The sums are usually pennies per plant so the actual royalty cost makes no material difference to the retail price of a plant. And if Elizabeth Macgregor earns […]

By way of an diary update: Saturday: Heavy downpours but enough dry spells to get on. Pushed on hard to finish planting up two of the three remaining areas. But by 4pm it was raining and miserable and I ran out of steam. More than that, I completely ground to a halt. Hit the wall. […]

This is going to be a quick, one topic blog post. I have spent the last 10 days at Tatton Park, building a show garden, ‘Grasses with Grace’. The garden was conceived about 9 months ago, centred on an idea of ornamental grasses with a sculpture. It was been gestating slowly in my imagination, growing […]